| Patient-centered
Resources:
Online Resources for
Patients, Clinicians & Others
newest
09/28/09: Delfini Messaging Scripts™: See Samples
for evidence-based messages for patients on specific clinical
topics.
newest
"Prevention
of Venous Thromboemobolism (VTE) in Total Hip and Total Knee
Replacement"
Important
Information
- Not all clinical
recommendations from other sources have been reviewed for
validity and ours may or may not be uptodate, so selections
below should be viewed as representing examples of approaches
and formats for communications, etc. Feel free to contact
us for details.
- Stars indicate
our favored sources that we use regularly, yet this should
not be considered to be an endorsement of any site, nor a
claim that everything in the site is of the highest quality.
- Read our Health
Care Information Source Cautions at Notices,
a key point being that all sources should be considered
to potentially vary in quality. We recommend you
audit each topic.
- You may need
to update information from the date of the topic's search.
- Some services
may be available by subscription only.
Contents
|
BMJ
BestTreatments
|
| Available
through licensure only: This site is meeting a huge information
need by providing relevant, valid information to patients and
to clinicians. It includes information on various conditions,
a section on decision aids and understanding risk, information
about alternative medicine and online classes. This is exactly
what we've been professing — patients and healthcare professionals
should be on the same evidence-based page.
Like Clinical
Evidence, BestTreatments classifies information
using the following categories:
• Treatments that work
• Treatments that are likely to work
• Treatments that work, but whose harms
may outweigh benefits
• Treatments that are unlikely to work
• Treatments that are likely to be ineffective
or harmful
Direct
Link to Sample Information from BestTreatments
from the BMJ based on Clinical Evidence
https://www.besttreatments.org/Unified/CDA/HP/tmpl/HPIndex/
About BestTreatments
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7391/674?eaf |
Cochrane
Informed Health Online |
| A
group called Informed Health Online based in Melbourne, Australia
provides evidence-based information for patients, clinicians
and others. It is a non-profit foundation found at http://www.informedhealthonline.org
This is a nice
website for consumers because it summarizes systematic reviews
from Cochrane (abstracts of Cochrane Reviews are available without
charge). The nice thing about this site is that you can get
to the abstracts of Cochrane Reviews and the consumer summaries
from one website and it is free. |
Consumer Reports "Best Buy Drugs"
|
| The
mission of the Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs project is to
provide consumers and their doctors with information to help
guide prescription drug choices–based on effectiveness,
a drug's track record, safety and price.
This appears to
be a good source of information since it is based on the work
of the Oregon Health & Science University Evidence-based
Practice Center which uses a rigorous approach to evaluating
science.
http://www.bestbuydrugs.org
|
Delfini
Rx
Messaging Scripts ™
|
Delfini
Messaging Scripts™: See Samples
for evidence-based messages for patients on specific clinical
topics.
newest
"Prevention
of Venous Thromboemobolism (VTE) in Total Hip and Total Knee Replacement"
|
DIPEx |
| Illness
information for patients, including patients talking about their
experiences with illness, can be found at this site. Many of
the modules are produced by professionals involved with the
Cochrane Collaboration. The site provides patients with information
by condition, but also through interviews with patients that
you can hear directly online. It also provides information about
other resources available to patients.
http://www.healthtalkonline.org/ |
| Medline
Plus for Patients MEDLINEplus |
| Medline
Plus provides extensive, “authoritative” information
from National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of
Health and other trusted sources on over 650 diseases and conditions.
Included are a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary,
extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs,
health information from the media, and links to thousands of
clinical trials. There is no advertising on the site, nor does
MEDLINEplus endorse any company or product. Although the site
uses criteria, it should be noted that there is no critical
appraisal of the information for validity.
Key criteria for
information and links include:
- Quality, authority
and accuracy of content (again, caution because there
is no critical appraisal of the information for validity).
- The source
of the content is established, respected and dependable.
A list of advisory board members or consultants is published
on the site.
- The information
provided is appropriate to the audience level, well-organized
and easy to use.
- Information
is from primary resources (i.e., textual material, abstracts,
web pages).
- Lists of
links are evaluated/reviewed/quality-filtered.
- The primary
purpose of the web page is educational.
- Information
is current or an update date is included.
- Registration
is not required to view the information on the site.
http://www.medlineplus.gov |
New
Zealand Guidelines Group Risk Calculator for Primary Prevention
of Cardiovascular Disease |
| 03/18/09:
Here is the New Zealand Guidelines Group risk
calculator for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease.
Typically, a cardiac risk calculator provides an estimate (either
5 or 10 years) of an individual's risk of experiencing an adverse
cardiac event based on specific risk factors. For example, the
New Zealand risk tables provide a 5-year assessment based on
an individual’s sex, diabetic status, smoking history
and age. It also provides an estimate of benefit (CVD events
prevented per 100 people) treated with blood pressure agents,
aspirin and lipid-lowering agents for 5 years based on risk
level.
Avoid ones that
present data for 10 years — they are extrapolated from
5-year evidence and, therefore, are not valid. This is the real
thing. You can find it through our weblinks at New Zealand
Guidelines Group or Cardiovascular Disease
Primary Prevention Risk Calculator.
http://www.nzgg.org.nz/guidelines/0035/CVD_Risk_Chart.pdf |
| RegenceRx®:
Pharmacy Benefit Management
|
| We
know of no group that does a better job of critical appraisal
and applying evidence-based medicine principles. Plus they make
summaries of their drug reviews freely available online.
For clinicians:
RxNews
http://www.regencerx.com/meet/physicianNews/index.html
Drug Review Summaries
http://www.regencerx.com/learn/physicianRx/index.html
For consumers:
http://www.regencerx.com/prescriptions/physicianTools/consumer/index.html
Read more about
our work with them here. |