This site is intended for the use of perinatal health care providers only. The information it contains is not intended for a non-professional audience. Information should not be used by non professionals seeking information about the diagnosis and treatment of health conditions. It is recommended that you visit a qualified health care professional for individual and personal attention

While every attempt has been made to ensure that the information provided is accurate and current, the Alberta Perinatal Health Program assumes no responsibility or liability for errors.

Selection Criteria for Web site links

These links are provided as reference to help you locate other internet resources. Please note that these other web sites were independently created by other parties and the Alberta Perinatal Health Program does not assume any responsibility for the accuracy or appropriateness of information contained in these other web sites. Readers should use their own critical appraisal skills to judge the quality of the information they find on these web sites.

The sites included in this section generally follow this selection criteria¹:

1. Authority and Reliability – developed by non-profit agencies such as government funded organizations and universities.
2. Currency – updated regularly
3. Applicability – contains valuable information for perinatal health care providers
4. Validity – Health technology and evidence based health sources generally follow accepted methods for ensuring the comprehensiveness, transparency and reliability methods used in their systematic reviews
5. Usability – most sites are fairly easy to navigate and search

Collection of personal information

The Alberta Perinatal Health Program respects the privacy and anonymity of its users. We do not use cookies. The information (names, email address or any other contact information) provided to us voluntarily by our visitors in their communications with us is securely stored and not shared with any third party². This information is used by the Alberta Perinatal Health Program for communications related to the program and activities specific to perinatal care.

¹ Adopted from the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Health Technology Assessment website http://ahfmr.ab.ca/ab.ca/hta/hta-pub.php

² Adopted from the Health on the Net Foundation privacy policy