Fact Sheet
Health Services Technology Assessment Texts (HSTAT)

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HSTAT is a free, Web-based resource of full-text documents that provide health information and support health care decision making. HSTAT's audience includes health care providers, health service researchers, policy makers, payers, consumers and the information professionals who serve these groups. The HSTAT url is http://hstat.nlm.nih.gov/

The following is the current list of the full-text, searchable documents available in the HSTAT database:

• Evidence reports and technology assessments from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR).
• AHRQ's Put Prevention Into Practice guidelines for clinicians and consumers.
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) Consensus Conference Reports and Technology Assessment Reports.
• HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service (ATIS) federally approved treatment guidelines and information.
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (SAMHSA/CSAT) Treatment Improvement Protocols (TIP) and Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (SAMHSA/CSAP) Prevention Enhancement Protocols System (PEPS).
• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's Guide to Clinical Preventive Services.
• Task Force on Community Preventive Services' Guide to Community Preventive Services.
• Reports of the Surgeon General.
• Health Technology Advisory Committee (HTAC) of the Minnesota Health Care Commission (MHCC) health technology evaluations.

HSTAT also provides links to external databases, including the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) PubMed®, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Prevention Guidelines Database, and the National Guideline Clearinghouse.

Researchers can browse an expandable table of contents for each HSTAT document, then select and download a particular section or sections. Researchers also have the option of doing a comprehensive text word (or phrase) search of all HSTAT documents. Additional information on selected references cited in the documents may be obtained through links in HSTAT to MEDLINE® records via PubMed.

HSTAT was developed by the National Library of Medicine's Information Technology Branch of the Lister Hill Center, and is part of the expanded Health Services Research Information Program coordinated by NLM's National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR). NICHSR works to improve the organization and dissemination of the results of health services research, including practice guidelines and technology assessments.

For additional information, contact:

National Information Center on Health Services Research
and Health Care Technology (NICHSR)
National Library of Medicine
Building 38A, Mail Stop 20
8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20894

Voice: (301) 496-0176; Fax: (301) 402-3193
email: nichsr@nlm.nih.gov
Internet: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/nichsr.html

A complete list of NLM Fact Sheets is available at:
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(subject list): http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/factsubj.html

FACT SHEETS
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Last updated: 29 May 2002
First published: 29 May 2002
Permanence level: Permanent: Stable Content