Search Tools

CHICA–Canada offers these links for additional resources for infection control professionals. Links presented here do not imply endorsement by CHICA–Canada.

Listing of resources for searching the web, particularly medical websites.

Medical and Infection Control Search Tools:

• Achoo
• CINAHLsource Link Index - information on nursing & allied health sites
• Hardin Meta Directory - includes medical pictures
• healthfinder - health information for the general public
• Healthopedia.com - health encyclopedia
• HealthWeb
• ICP Database – A database of many hundreds of selected articles with abstracts [from UCL – Brussels, Belgium]
• InfoRetrieve – PubMed, Medline and more
• MedBioWorld – Look up any medical journal
• Medexplorer
• Medguide
• MedHunt - search includes trustworthy medical sites adhering to HONcode principles
• Medline – Do a literature search, look up published articles and more...
• MedWeb
• PARADIGM – A unique annotated index to over 5,000 select references pertinent in hospital epidemiology and infection control.
• PubMed - Medline search
• U.S. National Library of Medicine

Other Search Tools:

• Alta Vista Search – Multilingual searches across many countries.
• Google Search – Fast! Extensive! In English or French.
• Yahoo! search – Canadian version
• WebCrawler - combines many other search engines