| Patient Education Materials |
| The following databases provide patient
education materials and are licensed for Mount Sinai
users. Materials may be printed for personal, non-commercial use
in educating individual patients. Remote access to these databases
is available except as noted.
Please read the library's statement concerning licensing
restrictions.
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MICROMEDEX
Care Notes System
Contains information on an extensive number of health topics (CareNotes)
and close to 1,000 frequently prescribed drugs (DrugNotes).
- All CareNotes and DrugNotes documents are available in English
and Spanish.
- The publisher states that CareNotes are written at a 6th to
8th grade level to offer patients concise information in easy-to-understand
terminology.
- Images are included in some CareNotes handouts.
- Printer friendly version available.
- Search for drug handouts by trade name or generic name. Some
drug classes can also be searched.
- Users may customize handouts with special instructions and contact
information; registration is not required.
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| MDConsult:
Patient Handouts
Contains condition and treatment information for health
topics and also contains medication information.
- Also offers resource lists of books (including, when appropriate,
children's books) and agencies for some diseases and conditions.
- Spanish language versions are provided for key topics.
- Images are included as separate printouts for some topics.
- Printer friendly version available.
- Search for drug handouts by trade, generic name or drug class.
- Free registration allows users to customize handouts with special
instructions and contact information.
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| Access
Medicine: Patient Education
Contains condition and treatment information for about
100 health topics. Patient education information provided courtesy
of McGraw-Hill's Postgraduate Medicine: The Practical Peer-Reviewed
Journal for Primary Care Physicians, a peer-reviewed
clinical journal for primary care physicians.
- Handouts typically include a list of resource agencies.
- Printer friendly version available.
- Free registration allows users to customize handouts with special
instructions and contact information.
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| eMedicine
Contains comprehensive condition and treatment information for an
extensive number of health topics.
- Advanced vocabulary may make these handouts more appropriate
for better educated readers.
- Handouts typically include a list of resource agencies.
- Excellent images included with many topics.
- "Printer friendly version" does not remove all Web
formatting, and handouts may be lengthy.
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UpToDate
Contains comprehensive condition and treatment information for an
extensive number of adult health topics; few pediatric topics are
available at this time.
- Advanced vocabulary may make these handouts more appropriate
for better educated readers.
- Handouts typically include a list of resource agencies.
- Printer friendly version available.
- To get started using patient handouts in UpToDate, enter "Patient
Information" as a search term in the main search page and
click Go. Then click the Patient Information
link to browse a list of health topics.
- Please note that UpToDate is available on-campus only
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STAT!Ref:
USP DI® Advice for the Patient - 26th Ed.
Contains an extensive collection of very detailed drug
monographs written for patients.
- Printer friendly version available.
- Search for drug handouts by trade name, generic name or drug
class.
- Some handouts are available for the drug class only. For example,
furosemide (Lasix) is covered with other agents in a handout for
Diuretics, Loop (Systemic).
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| The Mount Sinai Patient Family Education Committee
maintains a collection of patient education materials that it has
approved on its site on the hospital intranet. The site is available
(on campus only) at http://intranet1.mountsinai.org/Patient_edu/
Have a Question? Please contact us at ext. 47204
or send an email to: Ask
a Librarian
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