PATIENT EDUCATION RESOURCES
MedlinePlus – a
free service
of the National Library of Medicine and NIH. www.medlineplus.gov
– collates information from lots of websites. From the NIH and
its divisions, private foundations like Mayo, and from disease interest groups
like the American Diabetes Associaion.
– contains disease specific on-line patient tutorials
– special “easy to read” level brochures and printouts
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/easytoread/all_easytoread.html
– health encyclopedia and dictionary
– links to many organizations
– some Spanish
UpToDate
Patient Information – free site published by UpToDate
www.patients.uptodate.com
– search by disease or condition
– fairly high level of intelligence and reading skill required
– good pictures of exercises & such
– links to relevant NIH pages and other disease specific organizatons
Micromedex Care Notes
– a subscription service available at Jacobi or by paid subscription
– search by disease
– basic reading level, fill-in-the-blanks feature to customize for particular
patients
– everything available in English or Spanish
FamilyDoctor.org – a free site put together by
American Academy of Family Physicians
– searchable by topic
– good pictures
– English and Spanish for most topics
– usually included in Medlineplus results
JAMA Patient Pages
– on-line archive of all the patient pages published in Journal of the
American Medical Association
– Searching a bit cumbersome; have to to go Advanced Search
– Not comprehensive, more an extensive colllection of random topics
– Usually included in Medlineplus results
