Home: Finding Research Tools: Websites

Find a Tool Online

If you know the name of the tool you want to use, you can search it using your preferred search engine to see if it available on a website. These tools may be free or at a cost.

Tip! Even if you find a free tool online, there is a good chance you will need to get permission to use it. Read websites carefully for permissions needed. Make sure to keep a record of these permissions.

Government Websites

In addition, the government has health-specific research tools. Below are some suggestions on places to start looking that may have a tool to use in your project.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Search your topic plus:

measurement
tools
questionnaires
surveys
toolkits

Below are some example websites.

Website - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Office of Policy, Performance, and Evaluation, CDC Evaluation Documents, Workbooks, and Tools
This page features evaluation materials put together by the Office of Policy, Performance, and Evaluation
of the CDC to improve public health programs.
Website - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs), HAI Prevention, Control and Outbreak Response for Public Health and Healthcare
This page features tools and toolkits for investigation, prevention, and responses to healthcare infections.
Website - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: CDC Healthy Schools, Tools & Resources
This page includes tools and resources from the CDC to promote healthy schools.
Website - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Surveillance Resource Center, Tools & Templates
This page includes tools and templates from the Surveillance Resource Center of the CDC to improve the practice of public health surveillance.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Website - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Tools
Use this page to search the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) research-based tools that seek to improve patient care in all healthcare settings.

World Health Organization

Website - World Health Organization: Surveillance Systems and Tools
To support countries with the routine collection of NCD risk factor data among both adults and youth, WHO has developed a number of standardized tools.