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Community Health Evaluation

 

The CDC's Healthy Communities Program 's Tools for Community Action offers resources to help you plan, implement, and evaluate community health interventions and programs to address chronic disease and health disparities issues.  

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dch/programs/healthycommunitiesprogram/tools/index.htm

 

ECRI Guidelines Trust

"...a publicly available web-based repository of objective, evidence-based clinical practice guideline content. Its purpose is to provide physicians, nurses, other clinical specialties, and members of the healthcare community with up-to-date, clinical practices to advance safe and effective patient care. This centralized repository includes evidence-based guidance developed by nationally- and internationally-recognized medical organizations and medical specialty societies."

http://www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/index.aspx

 

 

Use subject headings and subheadings in searching the Traditional Literature.

Or  use the PubMed Health Services Research filters.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/hedges/search.html

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