Useful Links

 

PATIENT INFORMATION RESOURCES

·   Asthma and Allergy Handouts in Spanish   1. Easy Reader Sheets     2. Tips brochures   3. Resources (thx to Dr. Donohue)

·   Diabetes patient handouts from AAFP (for Spanish click top R corner)

·   From NY DOH Bed Bugs Information English and Spanish

·   Low potassium Diet from NYU  pt handout

·   From NY DOH Health Bulletins (great handouts for pts from NYC DOH in multiple languages)

·   Knee Exercises (medline)

·   Back Pain Exercise Sheet -American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (English and Japanese only)

·   24 Urine Collection    (medline)

·   ACP Health Tips – easy to read, downloadable 1 page concise overview of common topics (Pain, smoking , DM, MI, COPD etc…) in Spanish too!           

·   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 American Academy of Family Physicians. 

·   Back Pain Prevention: English   Spanish

·   Asthma: English (inhaler instruction)   Spanish (inhaler instruction and general info)

·   From the www.virtualhospital.org:

·   From the NCI - information about cancer in English and Spanish

·   From Argentina - Celiac Sprue diet in Spanish

·   For a calorie counting tool see Calorie Chart - Foods Sorted Alphabetically

·   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

·   Medicare Eligibility

·   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

The National Cancer Institute

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