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American Academy of Hospice & Palliative Medicine
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Originally organized as the Academy of Hospice Physicians in 1988, the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) is the only organization in the United States for physicians dedicated to the advancement of hospice/palliative medicine, its practice, research and education.
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American Statistical Assocation
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Vision Statement: To be a world leader in promoting statistical practice, applications, and research; publishing statistical journals; improving statistical education; and advancing the statistics profession.
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Center to Advance Palliative Care
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The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) is dedicated to increasing the availability of quality palliative care services in hospitals and other health care settings for people with life-threatening illnesses, their families, and caregivers.
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Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life
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The Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life seeks to improve care at the end of life through interdisciplinary scholarship, teaching, and outreach. Based at the Divinity School, the Institute's focus and efforts reflect the contributions of scholars and students from Duke University and partnering institutions.
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ENAR
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Eastern North American Region/International Biometric Society supports the advancement of biological science through the development of quantitative theories and the application, development and dissemination of effective mathematical and statistical techniques. ENAR includes portions of the United States and Canada east of aproximately 104 degrees West Longitude.
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End of Life Research Program, University of Washington
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The End of Life Care Research Program is composed of clinical and health services investigators and staff focused on specific projects that have as their overall goal the improvement of end-of-life care. In addition to providing the core support for these specific projects, the Program serves as a resource to other investigators conducting related research.
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Growth House, Inc.
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Growth House, Inc., provides this award-winning portal as your international gateway to resources for life-threatening illness and end of life care. Our primary mission is to improve the quality of compassionate care for people who are dying through public education and global professional collaboration. Our search engine gives you access to the Internet's most comprehensive collection of reviewed resources for end-of-life care.
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Innovations in End-of-Life Care
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This international, online journal features peer-reviewed promising practices in end-of-life care, useful tools, selected bibliographies, and other resources.
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Last Acts
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Last Acts is a campaign to improve end-of-life care by a coalition of professional and consumer organizations. We believe in palliative care, focused on managing pain and making life better for individuals and families facing death. Last Acts envisions a world in which dying people and their loved ones receive excellent care and are honored and supported by their community. This site is for professionals and volunteers working to improve care of the dying.
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National Library of Medicine: PubMed
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PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
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SAS macros
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File list of SAS Macros
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SAS Tech Support
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Find out how to get help with a problem on the web, over the phone, or through email, as well as how to identify and update the SAS support personnel at your site.
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SAS Users Group International Online Proceedings
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SUGI and SAS Institute offer the SUGI Proceedings online. You can now view the online versions of the Proceedings for each SUGI conference as far back as SUGI 22!
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Splus
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S-PLUS software is the premier solution for exploratory data modeling and statistical analysis. With over 4,200 data analysis functions, including the most comprehensive set of robust and modern methods available anywhere, S-PLUS allows you to perform more insightful analyses, create revealing graphics and make more informed business decisions.
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StatLib
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StatLib was founded in April of 1989 by Mike Meyer (mikem@stat.cmu.edu), a then Senior Research Scientist, in the Department of Statistics, at Carnegie Mellon University. StatLib started out as an e-mail service (and some of the organization still reflects that heritage). By 1995, StatLib had grown to a collection of about 150 Mbytes and the StatLib server was servicing about 60,000 transactions per month. In the summer of 1998 Mike left Carnegie Mellon and Pittsburgh for Seattle. He left StatLib behind him to Pantelis Vlachos, and with it a tremendous responsibility....
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Statsoft
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This Electronic Statistics Textbook offers training in the understanding and application of statistics. The material was developed at the StatSoft R&D department based on many years of teaching undergraduate and graduate statistics courses and covers a wide variety of applications, including laboratory research (biomedical, agricultural, etc.), business statistics and forecasting, social science statistics and survey research, data mining, engineering and quality control applications, and many others.
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Terry Therneau's Survival Analysis
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The End of Life Physician Education Resource Center (EPERC)
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The purpose of EPERC is to assist physicians and other educators involved in all aspects of physician end of life (EOL) education.
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The End of Life: Exploring Death in America
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This bibliography was prepared by the staff of NPR's All Things Considered and contains both books and journal articles dealing with terminal illness, symptom management, bereavement, grief, and medical and social policy relating to the care of the terminally ill. Many of the books listed will be available in community libraries and bookstores; the journal articles will likely only be available in University or Medical School libraries, through inter-library loan, or perhaps online through the National Library of Medicine's Medline database. Some selections are excerpted in the readings section of this Web site and can be accessed using the links provided.
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The Project on Death in America
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The Project on Death in America (PDIA) completed all grantmaking in December 2003, having distributed $45 million to organizations and individuals working to improve care for dying patients and their families. PDIA's mission was to understand and transform the culture and experience of dying and bereavement.
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University of Virginia Statistical Computing Tools
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By assembling a multidisciplinary team and combining the expertise of the basic clinical sciences of biostatistics, clinical epidemiology, health services research, and informatics, we aim to provide a better understanding of the relationships among biologic discoveries, patient characteristics, treatment options, systems and outcomes. This is intended to improve care of both patients and populations.
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VA Office of Research and Development (VA R&D)
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The Office of Research and Development aspires to lead the Veterans Health Administration in providing unequaled health care value to veterans. That endeavor is made ever greater-and challenged by-the changing dynamics of healthcare, which is always evolving as consumers demand quality for their dollar, and medical technology leaps ahead of our capacity to manage it.
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VA's Health Services Research and Development Service (HSR&D)
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VA's Health Services Research and Development Service (HSR&D), works to identify and evaluate innovative strategies that lead to accessible, high quality, cost-effective care for veterans and the nation. One of four research services within VA's Office of Research and Development, HSR&D is an intramural research program funding eligible VA clinicians and investigators to address VA health care priorities.
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Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics
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Virtual Statistical Community
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Welcome to the Virtual Statistical Community, an interdisciplinary network of statistically-minded faculty and graduate students. The community provides services for both neophytes and experts, creating a forum for researchers to find statistical resources, meet other statistical and methodological thinkers, and form research partnerships.
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