Patient Counseling   

 Please see Consumer Health for additional information

Patient Counseling Aids:   

Medical Conditions:

• Condition Info (MedBroadcast)
• eMedicineHealth
•  e-Therapeutics+ - $
• Familydoctor.org (American Academy of Family Physicians)
• Health Information (Walgreens)
• Health Topics (MedlinePlus)
• Information from your family doctor (American Family Physician, regular feature) - $
• JAMA Patient Page (Journal of the American Medical Association, regular feature)
•  Lexi-Comp (see "Patient Education" tab) - $
• Mayo Clinic
• Page for Patients (Preventive Medicine, regular feature) - $
• Patient Notes (Postgraduate Medicine, regular feature)
• Patient Teaching Aids (U.S. Pharmacist)
• PubMed From “Limits”, select under “Type of Article”: “Patient Education Handout”. In the search box, enter the topic for which you seek patient education materials, e.g. Diabetes Mellitus
• Summaries for Patients (Annals of Internal Medicine) - $

Drug Monographs and Drug Information:

• CareNotes System (Micromedex) - $
• Drug Information (Rite Aid)
• Drug Information (Walgreens)
• Drugs (MedBroadcast)
• Drugs, Supplements and Herbal Information (MedlinePlus)
• Medications and Drugs (New York Online Access to Health)
• Micromedex (see "Clinical Teaching" under any drug monograph) - $
• Drug Reference Search (Medscape)
• Postmarket Drug Safety Information for Patients and Providers (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
  
• SafeMedication (ASHP)

Health Information in Multiple Languages:

Cancer Information in Other Languages (Canadian Cancer Society)
Consumer Health Information in Many Languages Resources (National Network of Libraries of Medicine)
Harborview Project: Accessing Online Information for Immigrant and Refugee Health (National Library of Medicine Minority Consumer Health Outreach Program)
Health Information in Multiple Languages (MedlinePlus)
Health Information Translations
Health Information in your Language (Queensland Government)
Multicultural Resources (Heart & Stroke Foundation of Nova Scotia)
Patient Education Resources (EthnoMed)
Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages (SPIRAL) (Tufts University)

Patient Decision Aids:

• Patient Decision Aids (National Prescribing Centre)
• Patient Decision Aids (Ottawa Hospital Research Foundation)

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Recommended texts are linked to publishers' or book sellers' websites for further    ordering information

• Patient Education and Counseling - $

Dynamic Searches:   

Follow these links to search PubMed for the latest:

• Citations on counseling and pharmacy
• Citations on counseling and pharmaceutical preparations or drug therapy
• Citations on patient compliance and pharmacy
• Practice guidelines having information on patient compliance and pharmaceutical preparations or drug therapy
• Systematic reviews having information on patient compliance and pharmaceutical preparations or drug therapy

$ - Resource is not freely available on the Internet