Useful Links
PATIENT INFORMATION RESOURCES
MEDLINEplus: is approved
by NYPH as a source of information for patient and family education. Click on
the link to search any topic. If giving any information out to your patients,
please also be sure to include the NYPH disclaimers in English and
Spanish.
Here is a sample of useful handouts
NYS DOH
Viral Prescription (good patient education, helps avoid over use of
abx) Spanish
Version
www.noah-health.org
(New York Online Access to Health): has excellent patient education info in
English and Spanish
Depression patient information
(PDF files): English Spanish
Familydoctor.org:
information in Spanish and English from the
Back Pain
Prevention: English Spanish
Asthma: English
(inhaler instruction) Spanish (inhaler
instruction and general info)
From the www.virtualhospital.org:
Back
Pain Exercise Sheet -
From the NCI - information about cancer in English and Spanish
From
For a calorie counting tool see Calorie Chart - Foods
Sorted Alphabetically
From the Johns Hopkins Bayview Clinical Nutrition Website http://www.jhbmc.jhu.edu/NUTRI/healthy.html,
provides practical info like recommendations for low potassium, low
sodium, and diabetic diets.
Self-Treatment
for Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo Video and text (use video 2) Radtke et al. Neurology
2004;63:150-152
Health Insurance Patient Info:
Need Help
Paying for Medical Care? Information on eligibility and how to apply for
Medicaid
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service - has
searchable database for services covered
Consumer Reports
Best Buy Drugs:This on-line report compares generic, brand, and in some
cases OTC medications within each category and designate “best buy”
based on cost and effectiveness.
Health on the
Net Foundation www.hoh.ch: a Swiss foundation which supports this
not-for-profit portal to evidence based medical information on the Internet.
This site is a good starting point for finding patient handouts.
NYC DOH Health
Bulletin: Topical and colorful 6 page pt printouts in Spanish and English.
PROVIDER INFORMATION RESOURCES
Columbia
Health Science Library (links to PubMed/textbook/CU curriculum)
The Agency for Health
Care Policy and Research (AHPCR)
The American College of
Physicians: The journals "ACP Journal Club," "Evidence Based
Medicine," and excerpts from the "Annals of Internal Medicine"
are available here
Global
Initiative for COPD: Has useful provider and patient info pocket cards
No Free Lunch:
Wearing a CelebrexTM fanny pack? Writing with a ViagraTM
pen? Check out this site.
Statsoft's on-line statistics
textbook
The American Board of Internal Medicine
Physicians for a National Health Program
The Society for General Internal Medicine
Calvary
Hospital – outreach service