Dear
Patrons,
This month we have added 16 new links to GeneralPediatrics.com.
For Professionals:
1. The National Guideline Clearinghouse has added the AAP's Guidelines
for Referral to Pediatric Surgical Specialists.
http://www.guideline.gov/VIEWS/summary.asp?guideline=002646&summary_type=brief_summary&view=brief_summary&sSearch_string=Guidelines+for+referral+to+pediatric+surgical+specialists%2E
2. Neonatology guidelines and systematic reviews from the Geneva
Foundation for Medical Education and Research have also been
added.
http://www.gfmer.ch/Guidelines/Guideline_OG.php?fnct=selectParSubTopic¶m1=Neonatology
3. From the Harness Institute at Columbia University comes the Digital
Reference of Ophthalmology. Unfortunately the pediatric section is
under construction but it does have many other helpful pictures.
http://dro.hs.columbia.edu/
4. There are new resources about SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome). The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the CDC have
good general information including radiographs. We will also be adding
information from Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children very soon.
AFIP - http://www.afip.org/Departments/Pulmonary/SARS/
CDC - SARS for Clinicians -
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/sars/clinicians.htm
CDC - SARS information for the public
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/sars/basics.htm
Toronto Hospital for Sick Children - Paediatric Approach to SARS
http://www.sickkids.ca/healthcareprofessionals/custom/paeds_sars.asp
For Patients:
1. The AAP has published their 2003 Guide to Car Seats .
http://www.aap.org/family/carseatguide.htm
2. NIH has begun a new website entitled " Genetics Home
Reference." It is the National Library of Medicine's web site for
consumer information about genetic conditions and the genes
responsible for those conditions. I found it easy to use and
helpful.
http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/
I thought you might be interested in a synopsis of D-Lib Magazine's
article entitled "Trends in the Evolution of the Public Web:
1998-2002. The authors show that the public web is about the size of a
large research library, and is not expanding as it has been; rather is
plateauing. It also appears that the public web continues to be
US-centric, with the dominant language being English. The next most
frequent language is German. It may be that in the US the web has
reached maturation, but it has farther to go to reach its full
potential in other countries. This is important in medicine and
pediatrics because we still need to support health care providers and
patients in non-US countries, plus we need to support underserved
areas in the US. Additionally, as we have seen in the past few weeks,
new diseases, such as SARS, are global health problems which need
information disseminated rapidly.
The article is at:
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april03/lavoie/04lavoie.html
Your comments and suggestions are very important to us and help us to
better serve your needs. Please send them to
http://www.generalpediatrics.com/Comment.html
Respectfully,
Donna M. D'Alessandro, M.D.
Curator, GeneralPediatrics.com
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