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This US government website uses plain language to explain current laws and regulations relating to health insurance and health care in the United States.

All content is English & Spanish. Resources on a wide range of health topics selected from over 1,600 government and non-profit organizations. Includes online checkups, activity and menu planners, health calculators, and health news. All content is available in English & Spanish.

A public resource on clinical lab testing from the laboratory professionals who do the testing. Peer-reviewed Non-commercial Patient-centered

Includes easy-to-understand handouts and encyclopedia entries focused on diseases and conditions. Also includes information on OTC and prescription drugs, and herbal supplements.

Consumer health information. This US-government-produced website provides free medical information and is written for a non-professional audience. Also available entirely in English.

Helps seniors find answers to their medical questions. Includes large print, short, easy-to-read info and simple navigation. Special buttons can enlarge text or turn on high contrast. It does not include printable patient care handouts. A "talking" function which read the text aloud is not currently available.

Comprehensive source of cancer information. Contains: PDQ Cancer Information Summaries, Editorial Boards, Levels of Evidence, NCI Drug Information Summaries; NCI Dictionaries, Cancer Genetics Services. Selected content available in Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic.

Enter a topic. Limit your search to Patient Education Handouts ('Type of Article' checkbox).

Learn about your medical condition and explore treatment options. Look up your specific question — anything from a symptom you're concerned about to a condition or treatment you've been discussing with your health care provider — by typing in a search term like you would using Google.

Use 'Explore Topics' to browse Health and Nutrition or enter keywords in the Search FAQ box. Provides info.on Food, Nutrition and Fitness; Health by Population Group; Health Insurance; Health Services in Your Community; Prescription Drugs; and, Health Topics A-Z.

The Search FAQ box provides results from their knowledgebase and other Government Agencies.

From the AccessMedicine homepage, click on the "Patient Ed" tab to view the titles of the handouts. Includes over 100 patient education handouts on broad, common topics such as "skin cancer." Each handout summarizes basic information about a condition and provides treatment options.

The info was up-to-date when originally published in Postgraduate Medicine: The Practical Peer-Reviewed Journal for Primary Care Physicians. Patient Notes are checked for currency; however, some areas of medicine change rapidly. Users should always confirm therapeutic approaches using resources from the current literature.

Includes patient education handouts. Run a search and select 'Content Type: Patient Education' or select the 'Patient Education' tab to browse topics. Includes over 15,000 patient education handouts, with almost 11,000 in Spanish. Most are written at the 6th to 8th grade level. Over 300 'Easy-to-Read' handouts are written at a 2nd to 4th grade reading level. Users should register and log into Elsevier’s ClinicalKey to gain access to Elsevier-provided PDFs.

Click on "patient education" to find 1000+ handouts for patients in English and Spanish covering common conditions, medical procedures, and RX and OTC medications. As this is a drug information resource, the medication section is very robust.

From the Micromedex homepage, select "CareNotes System." Search by keyword or use the tabs at the top to browse.
Languages: English & Spanish Patient education information for diseases, drugs, procedures, labs, how to, and dietary.
Languages: English & Spanish; Top 100 drugs & discharge documents: available in 13 other languages.

Filter your results to Patient Education under Article Type: Patient Education Handouts Some journals have begun publishing summaries intended for patients or the lay public to explain a procedure or condition or summarize or comment on articles that report scientific or medical findings in the same issue.

These summaries are designed for physicians to share with patients or to assist physicians in talking to patients. In the 2002 indexing year and forward, the patient summaries are indexed with the new Publication Type - Patient Education Handout

Patient education materials about the most common medical conditions and procedures. USC users can access from the UpToDate homepage, search by keyword, or select the “Patient Info” tab to browse by topic. Patients can access the free patient-level topics at www.uptodate.com/patients The Basics - Topics are 1-3 pages in length, written in simple language and are best for a general overview. Beyond the Basics - Topics are 5-10 pages long and more detailed. They are for individuals who are comfortable with some technical medical terms.