Educate Patients and Families External Resources MedlinePlus offers a wide variety of resources to • Links to selected websites vetted through educate patients and their families on their disease the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or condition: including other government agencies, ® • Handouts – over 30,000 links to professional organizations and partners MedlinePlus informational and printable web pages, and • Links to resources include genetic testing for Health Professionals downloadable items in English with over and related sites, health literacy 10,000 links to Spanish materials information and health statistics from the at: http://medlineplus.gov/ National Center for Health Statistics • The Multiple Languages link points to Information for Patients & Families information in nearly 50 languages Linking to MedlinePlus and Resources for Health Professionals • Easy-to-Read materials use common words http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/linking.html for diseases and conditions • Patient education information including Anyone is welcome to link to MedlinePlus handouts and easy-to-read resources • The A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia in and/or to any of its health topic pages. English and Spanish is updated quarterly • Links to authoritative information in multiple languages • Over 950 Health Topics on disorders, MedlinePlus Connect links information to diagnosis, etc., are reviewed twice a year patient portals and electronic health records; • Easy to understand patient instruction with new links added daily see: http://medlineplus.gov/connect. pages in the Medical Encyclopedia • Interactive Tutorials and Anatomy Videos • Links to searches of PubMed/MEDLINE Need Help? in English and Spanish, plus hour-long for patient appropriate journal articles Surgery Videos updated annually Librarians find health information for patients • Extensive library of anatomy and surgery and professionals. Identify a local library at • Directories for libraries and health care videos and of interactive tutorials http://nnlm.gov/members. The National providers plus links to Organizations • Information on complementary and Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), an alternative therapies and remedies • Email Announcement Lists share new outreach program of NLM, provides assistance topics and resources added to MedlinePlus and training nationwide. Contact NN/LM at • Access information at the point of care 800-338-7657 or http://nnlm.gov with Mobile MedlinePlus Mobile MedlinePlus • Link health information to health records http://m.medlineplus.gov About MedlinePlus.gov MedlinePlus was developed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and offers free, high quality, up-to-date health information from selected resources. Funded under Contract No. HHS-N-276-2011-00005-C with the University of Illinois at Chicago and awarded by the DHHS, NIH, Reliable health information at your fingertips, National Library of Medicine. This resource is available freely at: whether on the phone, tablet or computer. http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/mp4hptri.pdf Reviewed: November 2013 Links to NLM and NIH Databases MedlinePlus provides links to additional consumer-friendly databases: • ClinicalTrials.gov: nearly 156,000 studies on drugs and treatments http://clinicaltrials.gov/ • DailyMed: over 57, 000 FDA approved drug labels and ingredients http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/ • Dietary Supplement Label Database: over 17,000 dietary supplement products http://www.dsld.nlm.nih.gov/ • Genetics Home Reference: over 900 human health conditions and diseases http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/ • LactMed: information on over 1000 drugs affecting mothers and breastfed infants http://lactmed.nlm.nih.gov/ • NIHSeniorHealth.gov: easy-to-navigate website for seniors and their caregivers http://nihseniorhealth.gov/ Information Prescription Find Images and Diagrams Identify PubMed® Articles http://informationrx.org/ Include image in the search (e.g. spine image) To identify articles appropriate for patients and Point your patients to MedlinePlus – visit the for links to images and diagrams: families, MedlinePlus creates a PubMed search Information Rx to order free materials: • The A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia which automatically adds terminology to contains photographs, illustrations, and retrieve listings from consumer health journals, diagrams in over 7,000 articles nursing journals and patient education handouts for the topic or disease of interest. • Detailed images of skin diseases are provided by Logical Images through links On an individual Health Topic page in the SM • MedlinePlus.gov “prescription” pad, to Skinsight English version of MedlinePlus, under the Research section, click on Journal Articles bookmarks, posters, and more • Follow additional links to atlases, image and then the see more articles link. Once in galleries, radiology sites, and other visual • Genetics Home Reference “prescription” PubMed, use Search details to view the exact resources pad terms used to create the search.