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Auto Accidents
- Black Box slide presentation
- Auto Accident Reconstruction
- Part 2: The Black Box
- Part 3: A Technical Description of the Event Data Recording Process
- Part 4: Data Accuracy, Limitations, and Validation
- Part 5: List of Vehicles Equipped with an Event Data Recorder
- Part 6: Data, Tables, Charts, Graphs
- Part 7: The Ford Motor Company System
- Part 8: Bibliography
Construction Site Accidents & Occupational Injuries
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health A branch of the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Institute conducts research on the full scope of occupational disease and injury.
- New York Labor Laws and Federal Regulations for construction sites
Medical Errors & Patient Safety
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) sponsors, conducts and disseminates research to help people make better decisions about health care. The AHCPR is a Public Health Service agency in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
- "Never events " [pdf] is a list of preventable serious outcomes in a healthcare setting. The list was compiled by the National Quality Forum. They are defined as "adverse events that are serious, largely preventable, and of concern to both the public and healthcare providers for the purpose of public accountability".
- Center For Justice & Democracy A non-profit, non-partisan, tax-exempt organization founded by consumer advocates that provides objective information concerning medical malpractice.
Misdiagnosis of Cancer or Infection
- Oncolink University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center OncoLink was founded in 1994 by Penn cancer specialists to help cancer patients, families, health care professionals and the general public get free, accurate cancer-related information.
Medical Malpractice
General Medical Information
- My Web MD A collection of articles, bulletin boards and tools about medicine and health, created by professional journalists and medical experts.
- Medical Matrix A free directory of selected Internet medical sites; requires online registration.
- Medline Plus Health Information Up-to-date, quality health care information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. This site offers extensive information about specific diseases and conditions. It also has links to consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health, dictionaries, lists of hospitals and physicians, health information in Spanish and other languages, and clinical trials.
- Online Health A to Z The Southeast Missouri Hospital's digital library provides a dictionary of searchable terms.
- Virtual Hospital A digital health sciences library created in 1992 at the University of Iowa to help meet the information needs of health care providers and patients. The Virtual Hospital library contains hundreds of books and brochures for health care providers and patients.
Traumatic Brain Injury
- Brain Injury Association The national Brain Injury Association (BIA) web site, with extensive brain injury information and facts, along with links to state association chapters.
- Centre for Neuro Skills / Information, services and products relating to traumatic brain injury, brain injury recovery and post-acute rehabilitation.
- Malignant Brain Tumors and Neuro-oncology Resources General Hospital Harvard Medical School site with information and links to other neurological resource sites.
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke A searchable site with information on selected neurological disorders.
- Neurosurgery://On Call The official web site of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of Neurological Surgeons
- Traumatic Brain Injury Survival Guide An online book that introduces the basics about brain injury.
Other
Legal
- FindLaw
- U.S. Courts
- New York State Courts
- Westlaw
- New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers
- New York State Regulations
