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Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI)
Coverage: 1985 -
Description: Provides information about articles on questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes and manuals,... Description: Provides information about articles on questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes and manuals, rating scales, and other measurement instruments in the fields of health, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. This database is updated quarterly and links to full text articles (Fulltext@MSK).

Health and Wellness Resource Center
Coverage: Varies
Description: This database contains articles from medical publications and general interest publications on medical topics; medical... Description: This database contains articles from medical publications and general interest publications on medical topics; medical pamphlets; a health organization directory; medical and alternative health encyclopedias; a medical dictionary; drug and herb information; health assessment tools; and links to health news and Internet sources.
Authorization: Password Lookup for MSK Employees and Students

Health Services and Sciences Research Resources (HSRR)
Coverage: Current
Description: Contains descriptions of research resources available for population-based research, links to PubMed and web addresses... Description: Contains descriptions of research resources available for population-based research, links to PubMed and web addresses (URLs) of data resource providers. Content includes clinical records; discharge summaries; claims records; epidemiological surveys; health/behavioral/social surveys; disease registries; birth registries; and data about practitioners; programs; and facilities. A user can search about 300 research datasets, over 55 instruments/indices, and more than 20 software applications that are frequently used in health services research and in the behavioral and social sciences. These research-oriented tools may be used to assess data variables and data collection methodologies. The database default is to search all tools (i.e., datasets, instruments, and software). Alternatively, each type of tool can be searched separately or browsed by title or source. Any word or phrase can be searched in more than thirty fields.

Household Products Database
Coverage: Current
Description: Links over 6,000 consumer brands to health effects from Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) provided... Description: Links over 6,000 consumer brands to health effects from Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) provided by the manufacturers and allows scientists and consumers to research products based on chemical ingredients. Users can find out about the percentage of chemical ingredients in specific brands, manufacturers of specific brands, how to contact them, and the acute and chronic effects of these chemical ingredients.