• Talking With Your Doctor - This page from MedlinePlus® provides links to general & disease specific health communication tips.
  Web Address / URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/talkingwithyourdoctor.html

• All Easy-to-Read Health and Medical Sites - This page from MedlinePlus® provides links to information on numerous health topics written in plain language.
  Web Address / URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/easytoread/all_easytoread.html

• Health Information in Multiple Languages - This page from MedlinePlus® provides links to consumer health information in over 45 languages other than English covering over 300 topics.
  Web Address / URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/languages/languages.html

• Evaluating Health Information -  This page from MedlinePlus® provides links to numerous resources from professional associations, organizations, and governmental agencies on how to find and evaluate health/medical information.
  Web Address / URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/evaluatinghealthinformation.html

• General Health Care Resources - The General Health Care Resources section on the Nursing Web Links site provides direct access to many health and medical websites which provide information on a wide range of topics.
  Web Address / URL: http://www.monroecc.edu/depts/library/nursing/GeneralHealthCare.htm

• Health Fraud - This page from MedlinePlus® offers the following categories of information on health fraud: Overviews, Related Issues, Organizations, Law and Policy, and Seniors.
  Web Address / URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthfraud.html

• My Family Health Portrait - My Family Health Portrait is part of the U.S. Surgeon General's Family History Initiative. This website allows you to create a personalized family health history report from any computer with an Internet connection and an up-to-date Web browser. It is also available in Spanish. Web Address / URL: https://familyhistory.hhs.gov/

• American Society of Anesthesiologists: Patient Education - This page on the ASA website provides information about patient awareness under general anesthesia, and links to access to access the ASA Patient Resource Center and ASA Patient website.
  Web Address / URL: http://www.asahq.org/patientEducation.htm

• NIH MedlinePlus Magazine - "NIH MedlinePlus Magazine is a new quarterly guide for patients and their families. It brings the latest and most authoritative medical and healthcare information from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as featured online on the MedlinePlus website."
  Web Address / URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/magazine/index.html

• Patient Resources from Merck Medicus - "Patient resources including handouts, clinical trials, websites, and medical news in the media."
  Web Address / URL: http://www.merckmedicus.com/pp/us/hcp/templates/tier2/patientEdu.jsp

• Patient Rights - This page from MedlinePlus® provides links to information on patient's rights, including law and policy issues such as the Patient's Bill of Rights and informed consent.
  Web Address / URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/patientrights.html

• Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages
  (SPIRAL) - A joint initiative of the South Cove Community Health Center and Tufts University Hirsh Health Sciences Library, the project aims to provide access to consumer health information in English, Chinese, Cambodian, Vietnamese, Laotian, and other languages.
  Web Address / URL: http://spiral.tufts.edu/

• Web Sources for Patient Education Handouts - From Oregon Health & Science University Libraries, a collection of links to patient education materials in English, Non-English, and Low Literacy language. Web Address / URL:
  http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/library/research-assistance/patient-education-links.cfm

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