Nursing: Health Search Engines

The NHS-CRD-HTA (INAHTA; Technology Assessments) database contains information on Health Technology Assessment (evaluation of medical procedures and technologies in health care). It is developed in cooperation with the international network of public HTA Agencies (International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment - INAHTA). The database comprises information on current up-to-date HTA projects and on published HTA reports of the INAHTA-members as well as other HTA facilities. The Abstracts are descriptive rather than evaluative. In addition to HTA reports, the database indexes studies, survey results, economic appraisals and systematic reviews.

iMedisearch is a customized Google engine specifically built to search medical-related resources. All websites have been selected by a practicing clinical pharmacist according to strict accepted criteria, and searches can be limited to the end-user needs, including nursing, allied health, medicine, pharmacy or the general public.

CISMeF ([French] acronym for Catalog and Index of French Language Health Resources on the Internet) is a quality-controlled health gateway to catalog and index the most important and quality-controlled sources of institutional health information in French. The objective of CISMeF is to assist health professionals and consumers in their search for electronic information available on the Internet.