Information on HEDIS Indicators
Links to information on HEDIS - http://www.mcis.duke.edu/standards/datasets/hedis.htm
Main NCQA Page (National Commission on Quality Assurance) - http://www.ncqa.org/Pages/Main/toc.htm
NCQA Provider Page - http://www.ncqa.org/pages/Main/providers.htm
Use of measures - http://www.ncqa.org/pages/policy/hedis/h00meas.htm
Frequently asked questions http://www.ncqa.org/pages/policy/accreditation/mco/mcofaq.htm
NCQA Standards 1999 averages: http://www.ncqa.org/pages/communications/news/99avgs.html

Information On Quality Of Care
Health Services Technology Assessment Text http://text.nlm.nih.gov/
National Guidelines Clearing House http://www.guideline.gov/
As Good As It Should Get: Making Health Care Better In The New Millennium By: Donald M. Berwick
Institute For Healthcare Improvement http://www.nchc.org/berwick.html
Quality Health Care: New Challenges as Medicare Evolves Final Report Prepared for: The National Coalition on Health Care http://www.nchc.org/quality.html
Evidence-based Medicine The Convergence of Evidence-based Health Care and Quality Improvement http://www.enigma.co.nz/hcro_articles/9807/vol2no9_002.htm
Ovretveit J. Evidence-based medicine: the convergence of evidence-based health care and quality improvement. Healthcare Review – OnlineTM. 2(9); July 1998. http://www.enigma.co.nz/hcro_articles/9807/vol2no9_002.htm
ADA quality improvement set http://www.diabetes.org/dqip.asp

Sites with good primary information
Medicine and Public Health - The Power of Collaboration - Access to the monograph which describes the six synergies between Medicine and Public Health, http://library.nyam.org/pubhlth/medpub1.html
LOANSOME DOC - Instructions on ordering articles http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/loansome_doc.html
The Information Survival Guide from the University of Pittsburgh Health Services Library System (browse on line or download a copy. http://www.hsls.pitt.edu/intres/guides/isg.html
Guide to Community Preventive Services - Not yet complete but will have a list of community preventive services that work http://web.health.gov/communityguide/default.htm:
The Public Health Training Network - Learn about all the programs provided by the Public Health Training Network. (There is a very good radioplayer video on Hepatitis C. http://www.cdc.gov/phtn/
Guide to Clinical Preventive Services http://158.72.20.10/pubs/guidecps/
Put Prevention into Practice http://www.ahcpr.gov/ppip/
The Global Health Super Course includes lectures on epidemiology, economics, and the internet. http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/main/index.htm
The CDC Strategic Plan for Integrating Genetics into Public Health - http://www.cdc.gov/genetics/stratpl.html.
How to read medical papers from the British Medical Journal **** Excellent http://www.bmj.com/collections/read.htm
The ABC's of Medical Computing http://www.bmjpg.com/data/abcmc.htm
Hazard Net
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Models that Work
- Innovative and successful models for the delivery of primary health care to undeserved and vulnerable populations.
Pennsylvania Link to Learn Project http://l2l.org/
Access to PA telecommuniciaton maps - http://www.sis.pitt.edu/%7Eltolearn/

Sites with clinical practice guidelines
Please note, I received these addresses over the Health Administration List Server of the American Association of Public Health on July 20th . I have not had the opportunity to review all of the sites. Please view them with the skepticism that you would view any web sites.

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) http://text.nlm.nih.gov/ftrs/pick?ftrsK=0&collect=ahcpr&t=866498199
The National Clinical Guidelines Web site! http://www.ahcpr.gov/fund/ngcguidl.htm
National Information Center on Health Services Research - Health services research, clinical practice guidelines, etc. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/nichsr.html
The Family Practice HandBook http://www.vh.org/Providers/ClinRef/FPHandbook/FPContents.html
Cardiology algorithms http://www.cardiologycompass.com/
NIH Depression in Primary Care Guidelines http://isis.nlm.nih.gov/ahcpr/dep/www/dep1ctxt.html
APA online compendium of guidelines http://www.psych.org/pract_of_psych/compendium.html
National Health Care Skill Standards Project http://www.fwl.org/nhcssp/health.htm
American College of Physicians (two sets of counseling guidelines) http://www.acponline.org
Society of Prospective Medicine - research and application of health risk appraisals http://www.spm.org
FDA Regulatory Guidance's http://www.fda.gov/cder/guidance/index.htm
Overview of new NCQA guidance http://www.ncqa.org/accred/99over.htm
Respiratory clinical practice guidelines http://www.rcjournal.com
American Geriatrics Society clinical practice guidelines notice http://www.americangeriatrics.org/chronicpress.html
UCLA's clinical guidelines web site -- the whole schebang! http://wwwstage.library.ucla.edu/libraries/biomed/cdd/clinprac.htm
Allergen Immunotherapy Practice Guideline http://www.cma.ca/journals/cmaj/vol-152/1413e.htm
Antimicrobial Surgery Prophylaxis Practice Guideline http://www.cma.ca/journals/cmaj/vol-151/0925e.htm
Cardiac Surgery Clinical Practice Guidelines http://www.csmc.edu/cvs/md/guide.html
Clinical Foresighted Practice Guidelines http://www.swcp.com/~tanman/fpg.html
Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults http://dsg.harvard.edu/public/guidelines/cholesterol/chlintun.html
Early Breast Cancer Clinical Practice Guidelines http://www.nbcc.org.au/pages/nbclingd.htm
Pediatric Clinical Guidelines, Loyola University Medical Center http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/DeptWebs/peds/clinguid.htm
Radiology Practice Guidelines, American College of Radiology http://www.xray.hmc.psu.edu/p_guidelines.html
Rheumatology Guidelines, American College of Rheumatology http://www.rheumatology.org/guidelin/guidelin.htm
Standards, Guidelines, and Policies , American Society of Anesthesiologists http://www.asahq.org/Standards/TOC.html 
TALARIA:Hypermedia Clinical Practice Guidelines for Cancer Painhttp://WWW.Stat.Washington.edu/TALARIA/TALARIA.html 
Thyroid Nodule Management Clinical Practice Guidelines, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists http://www.aace.com/guidelines/nodule.html
Cardiology clinical practice guidelines. ..all of them http://www.gretmar.com/webdoctor/CardiologyClinical.html
Pediatric illness guidelines...most of them http://www.galter.nwu.edu/hw/ped/pedguide.html

Sites with good links to other sites
Global Health Network
Resource page from the Global Network Super Course
- Includes Links to Epidemiology for the Unintiated statistics at Square One and a variety of excellent articles from the British Medical Journal http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/main/resource/ 
National Health Information Center run by the Federal Government

Sites of organizations  
Pennsylvania Medical Society http://www.pamedsoc.org/
American Medical Society Page (Contains information on year 2000 problems for members) http//www.ama-assn.org/
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation  
The American Public Health Association  
University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health Home Page
Yahoo's Pennsylvania Page
Link to Pennsylvania Services

Pennsylvania Department of Health Web Page
The Health Alliance of Pennsylvania
http://www.hap2000.org/
The Institute for Healthy Communities http://www.hap2000.org/ihc/index.html
The Medicine/Public Health Initiative http://www.sph.uth.tmc.edu/mph/
The Cocrane Collaboration - Preparing, Maintaining and Disseminating Systematic Reviews of the Effects of Health Care http://hiru.mcmaster.ca/cochrane/cochrane/general.htm