Nursing Research

is a brief questionnaire which provides users with a valid and reliable way of assessing the quality of written information on treatment choices for a health problem. DISCERN can also be used by authors and publishers of information on treatment choices as a guide to the standard which users are entitled to expect.

The HON Code of Conduct for medical and health Web sites (HONcode)

This is the home page of the collaborative project by members of the Nursing and Allied Health Resource Section of the Medical Library Association. The content includes resources for nurses and other health professionals including databases, electronic books, electronic journals, and Web sites related to nursing and allied health disciplines. Those not marked with $$ are free. Others may be free to you via your health science or academic library.

A peer-reviewed open access journal provided by the Public Library of Science (PLoS).

Welcome to Nurse.com, the leading source of local and national nursing news, continuing education, and career opportunities for nurses. We provide the most current local and national nurse news on the web, as well as providing web editions of our nurse ma

Reuters Health (RH) is the world's leading provider of medical and healthcare news. Reuters Health news services are internationally recognized as unbiased, authoritative, timely and dependable, with the reputation for quality that one expects from a Reut

The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is the world’s largest, on-going telephone health survey system, tracking health conditions and risk behaviors in the United States yearly since 1984.
Currently, data are collected monthly in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam.

The Census Bureau's mission is to serve as the nation’s leading provider of quality data about its people and economy.

By collecting and analyzing data from a variety of government and private sources, we're able to create detailed, informative profiles for every city in the United States. From crime rates to weather patterns, you’ll find the data you're looking for on City-Data.com.

Data Gems is a series of short videos available for data users who are looking for an easy and quick way to enhance their knowledge of Census data and concepts

The FastStats site affords quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance and is organized alphabetically. Links are provided to publications that include the statistics presented, to sources of more data, and to related web pages.

U. S. Department of Health & Human Services, Health Resources & Services Administration

Project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation regarding current health data on all 50 states.

HCUPnet is a free, on-line query system based on data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). It affords access to health statistics and information on hospital inpatient and emergency department utilization