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Finding information to share with patients

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Prevention, wellness, and disease information

  • CISMeF-patients: Sites médicaux francophones à destination des patients et de leurs familles |FRENCH|
    A directory of French-language sites from Canada, Belgium, and France.
  • College of Family Physicians of Canada - Patient Education Program / Collège des médecins de famille du Canada - Programme d'éducation des patients
    Factsheets with summaries of common problems in family medicine.
  • Health Guide Services to Citizens, Quebec Portal |FRENCH|
    "Simple, practical, and reliable information to help you deal with a non-urgent health problem and become better prepared to use Quebec health-care services. It also presents suggestions for you to play an active role with regard to prevention."
  • Healthwise Knowledgebase
    Contains comprehensive, current, evidence-based information for consumers, including health topics, medical tests, medications and complementary & alternative medicine.
  • Healthy Ontario / Santé Ontario |FRENCH|
    This site, from the Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion is a large, bilingual site providing drug and disease as well as health promotion information reviewed by health professionals.
  • JAMA Patient Pages - (information available in English and Spanish)
    The Journal of the American Medical Association's patient pages are listed here for convenient browsing and printing.
  • Lab Tests Online
    For descriptions of medical tests - what they look for, and how they work.
  • MDConsult
    This resource includes a section with patient handouts that can be customized for individual patients before being printed.
  • MEDLINEplus (U.S. National Library of Medicine) |SPANISH|
    A directory of disease and drug information from reliable American associations. Includes "Easy-To-Read" links and interactive tutorials for many diseases and conditions.
  • NOAH: New York Online Access to Health |SPANISH|
    A directory of health and wellness information from primarily American websites. Includes "Read Me First" links for easy-to-understand information.
  • Sexualityandu.ca |FRENCH|
    A Canadian website for teens, adults, and health professionals about all issues surroudning human sexuality.
  • TRIP Database: Turning Research Into Practice - Patient Information Leaflets
    This Welsh site is a search engine retrieving information, particularly evidence-based information, from over 50 sites, including 4,200 patient information leaflets.
  • UpToDate
    This database includes patient information handouts for many topics. Some of which are freely accessible.
  • Women's Health Matters (Sunnybrook & Women’s College Health Sciences Centre) |FRENCH|
    This website contains original information pertaining to women's health as well as a searchable database of quality print, electronic, and multimedia information sources.

Decision tools for patients

Specific diseases

Some major websites with disease information

Rare diseases

Multicultural health information

Drug information and alternative therapies

Environmental Health

  • Guide to Less Toxic Products (Environmental Health Association of Nova Scotia)
    Lists alternative products for personal care, household cleaning, baby care, and household pest control.
  • Household Products Database: Health and Safety Information on Household Products
    A searchable database of common household products which lists all ingredients. Can also be searched by chemical ingredient.
  • Skin Deep: (Environmental Working Group)
    News about the safety of popular health & beauty brands

Consumer health information centres

Regional health services

Print resources

Quality, reliability, and readability of health information

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