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Resources include links to other websites that feature clinical- or improvement-related information in a specific Topic or Subtopic.
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Patient, Family & Consumer Sites
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Patient, Family & Consumer Sites
The site offers evidence-based information about treatment options, interviews with patients, aids to guide decision making, and other tools on a variety of conditions.
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Decision aids help patients and their practitioners make "tough" decisions (i.e., those that have multiple options, or uncertain outcomes and harms). The decision aids help patients choose the path they should take with their care by making decisions based on their personal preferences and values.
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Ask Me 3 is a website for both providers and patients that promotes three simple but essential questions that patients should ask their providers in every health care interaction. The Ask Me 3 program is sponsored by the Partnership for Clear Communications and provides information and practical strategies for both patients and providers to address health literacy issues.
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The site has the latest information about research, treatments, events, and news about multiple sclerosis (MS). The Living with MS section includes personal stories from patients and families as well as self-management information. Listen to or add your own inspirational stories, and connect with others through chat rooms. Ways to Wellness provides information on alternative ways to improve health beyond medication. Online educational programs about MS are also available.
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This website offers patients and health care professionals access to credible, current, and comprehensive information about cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, statistics, research, clinical trials, and news.
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The community areas of this website offer a place for people with common interests to stay informed on the topics that interest them, while sharing knowledge and finding support from people who have experience with mental illness. The “Living With” Community provides illness-specific information and support and discussion groups for consumers, family members and anyone interested in a specific mental health condition.
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This website presents live weekly talk shows about life with various chronic illnesses, advanced treatments, and self-management. By interacting directly with leading medical leaders via interactive web casts, message boards, and blogs, patients receive accurate and up-to-date information and learn to self-advocate for their health and wellness. Also available are the latest resources, treatment options, questions to ask your doctor, and personal patient and family stories about living with chronic conditions.
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This website dedicated to people on their way to "healing well” is an online community and information resource for patients, caregivers, and families coping with diseases, disorders and chronic illnesses. The site offers health articles, doctor-produced video web casts, interactive tools, professional health care resources, and community support to help individuals to take control of their illness and start managing their health.
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This comprehensive website includes information on diabetes as well as self-management. Presently there are active Message Boards to share ideas and opinions on a variety of topics with people affected by diabetes. In addition, the Diabetes Learning Center promotes better diabetes self-management in the sections entitled Nutrition, Exercise, and Weight Loss. The Virtual Grocery Store focuses on healthy food choices and meal planning. Much of the information is offered in Spanish.
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This site provides information and support to cancer patients and those who care for them through cancer-related Internet mailing lists and web-based resources. The mailing lists enable patients, family, friends, researchers, and clinicians to discuss medical and non-medical issues as well as advances pertaining to all forms of cancer treatment practices.
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WebMD provides access to health and wellness articles, as well as decision-support tools that help consumers make informed decisions about treatment options, health risks and health care providers. Also available is detailed information on a particular disease or condition, symptom analysis, periodic e-newsletters on topics of individual interest, online educational videos, and message boards to connect with peers and health care professionals.
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The Health Information section of the National Institutes of Health website provides information about a wide variety of health topics, including health conditions, mental health, alternative medicine, herbal medicine, and healthy lifestyles. There is also a free weekly Health Information Newsletter.
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The mission of this website is to empower people to manage their health. The site provides health information and health improvement tools that reflect the expertise and standard of excellence of the Mayo Clinic. Topics include workplace stress, work-life balance, how to handle medical emergencies first-aid guide, and treatment decision guides for many conditions. In the "Ask a Specialist" section, Mayo Clinic specialists answer select questions.
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The “How’s Your Health” tool allows patients to explore their health care needs and communicate more effectively with their providers. Get a two-part "10-Minute Health Checkup": 1) assess health, habits, knowledge about disease prevention, and satisfaction with health care providers; 2) use the individualized "action form" to share with a doctor to manage your health and keep track of progress. There is also a section to privately share and learn problem-solving strategies with others online.
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This consumer website developed by the US Department of Health and Human Services provides background on health care providers, ratings of hospitals and nursing homes, guides to health insurance, how to report fraud or make a complaint, and privacy issues. The site offers a drug database and information about chronic diseases.
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This website operated by the American Academy of Family Physicians provides information that has been written and reviewed by physicians and patient education professionals. A variety of topics of covered, including a "smart patient guide," explanations about medical conditions, and ideas about healthy living and disease prevention. The site also offers health tools such as a medical dictionary, find a doctor, BMI calculator, drug information, search by symptom, and website reviews.
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The Institute for Family-Centered Care, a non-profit organization, provides leadership to advance the understanding and practice of patient- and family-centered care. By promoting collaborative, empowering relationships between providers and consumers, the Institute facilitates patient- and family-centered change in all settings where individuals and families receive care and support. Guidance for creating patient and family advisory councils, supporting family participation on committees and task forces (e.g., patient safety, pain management, quality improvement, and patient and family education), collaborative design planning, and involving patients and families in staff orientation and the education of students and trainees is available from the Institute.
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The Center for Medical Home Improvement is dedicated to establishing and supporting quality improvement teams that are composed of families and professionals to evaluate and enhance health care for children with special health care needs. CMHI offers a myriad of resources to develop and evaluate a “medical home,” including how to prepare and support families to be partners in these initiatives.
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The goal of this Health Research and Educational Trust project, funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, was to help health care organizations create effective, culturally sensitive self-management support programs. For eight months, teams from six provider organizations tested, adapted and implemented evidence-based self-management support principles in their settings to produce improvement at both the individual patient level and the practice level to maximize positive health behaviors, satisfaction with health care, and quality of life for their patients with chronic conditions.
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