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Have Consumer Health Websites, Will Travel: Taking Patient Education Information to Physicians' Offices

Pages 358-365 | Published online: 07 Sep 2008
 

Abstract

Medical Library staff at the Gwinnett Hospital System developed a novel way to enhance services to clinical staff by traveling to physicians' offices for hour-long “lunch and learn” tutorials for doctors and office staff. Librarians discovered that doctors and office staff voiced a need for authoritative patient-education information in various languages and literacy levels. The librarians review both fee-based and free, vetted Internet sites through the hospital's physician portal and the Internet. The article discusses a number of useful websites librarians can show hospital staff so they can better teach their patients how to find health information and participate in their own care.

Comments and suggestions should be sent to the column editor: Mary Fran Prottsman. (E-mail: [email protected]).

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