[brian]

Do you refer patients to websites for helpful information?

If you do refer patients, please feel free to share which websites you refer them to. Thanks!

[brian]

My favorite website to refer friends and family and patients to is:

Medline Plus (U.S. National Library of Medicine):
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/

[TriciaRN]

I like the following:
www.diabetes.org (American Diabetes Assoc.)
www.americanheart.org (American Heart Assoc)
www.lungusa.org (American Lung Assoc)
www.cdc.gov (Centers for Disease Control)


Tricia

[eagnd]

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[acgemt]

This is an interesting thread, and I was suprised by the number of those referring patients to websites. I don't think I would refer any of my patients to websites. I think it would take away the desire to see a PCP. If I thought I was able to diagnose myself through a website by looking at the symptoms, and seeing that there was treatment (that you didn't need to obtain from an MD), then I wouldn't go. Any thoughts??

[eltrip]

I work in a call center providing nurse advice and telephone triage. We have any number of folks who need information that (a) they want to look at for themselves or (b) is not in our database (& therefore not printable). We help folks with all sorts of questions, everything from assistance in obtaining medications to flu vaccine information.

Some popular choices of late have included:
www.cdc.gov (gee, I've memorized this one!)
www.needymeds.com
http://www.lalecheleague.org/index.html
http://www.healthfinder.gov/
http://www.diabetes.org/
http://www.americanheart.org/

Interesting work, let me tell you!

[Nurse Ratched]

Since most of my work is with college students and they live on the internet, I have a selection of websites I refer to for various conditions.

I am VERY careful to advise them that not all websites are the same, and there is a lot of bad/inaccurate info out there.

[webblarsk]

I am afraid to refer patients to a website. There is so much non-truth on the website that I am afraid my patients would come across it. Heck, after I have been on the website I think I have numerous health problems. LOL.

[Fun2Care]

Referring to websites for more information can be a good thing, if you can trust the site! For example, http://www.pkdcure.org is good for PKD, and maybe your hospital has information on its website that could be good too!

[deepz]

http://www.gaspasser.com/

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