| Information Sources and Databases
Drug information:
British National Formulary
eMedicines Compendium (you need to register first)
Pharma-lexicon Cost-effectiveness Databases: NHS Economic Evaluation Database
(Produced by the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, available free)
Health Economic Evaluations Database
(Produced by the Office of Health Economics and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations (IFPMA) - available on CD-ROM and via the internet)
The CUA Data Base: Standardizing the Methods and Practices of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
(Produced by the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, Harvard School of Public Health; available free)
Other Databases and sources:
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Bath Information and Data Services (BIDS)
Bibliographic service for the academic community in the UK. Provides access to the IngentaJournals and ScienceDirect. Requires ATHENS username and password. (JISC-funded)
EconPapers
Working Papers in Economics
BIOME
A collection of gateways which provide access to evaluated, quality Internet resources in the health and life sciences, aimed at students, researchers, academics and practitioners. BIOME is created by a core team of information specialists and subject experts based at the University of Nottingham Greenfield Medical Library, in partnership with key organisations throughout the UK and further afield.(JISC-funded)
CHEST OVID BIOMEDICAL SERVICE
Comprises the following datasets: Medline, CINAHL, CancerLit,and 7 Ovid BioMedical Journal Collections as well as EBMR, ClinPSYC, SPORTDiscus, HealthSTAR and AMED.
You will need ATHENS (Access Management Service) username and password to access the service.
Clinicaltrials.gov
EDINA
Based at Edinburgh University Data Library, is a JISC-funded national datacentre.
European Health Systems Reforms database
HSTAT
A free, web-based resource that provides access to full-text documents useful for providing health information and for health care decision making.
IDEAS
A bibliographic database dedicated to Economics
MIMAS
A JISC -supported national data centre run by Manchester Computing, at The University of Manchester, to provide the UK academic community with flexible online access to socio-economic, spatial and scientific data, and to bibliographic and electronic journal data services.
National electronic Library for Health
Australian Social Science Data Archives
Located in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University , was set up in 1981 with a brief to collect and preserve computer-readable data relating to social, political and economic affairs and to make the data available for further analysis.
Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG)
A freely available Internet service which aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for students, academics, researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law. It is part of the UK Resource Discovery Network.
UK Data Archive
A specialist national resource containing the largest collection of accessible computer readable data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom. Through these web pages it is also possible to search the catalogues of other national archives for computer readable data and to use the services of the UK Data Archive to acquire these data on your behalf.
WebEc
Categorises free information in economics on the WWW.
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