Patient Counselling

• CareNotes System (Micromedex) - $
• Drug Information (Rite Aid)
• Drug Information (Walgreens)
• Drugs (MedBroadcast)
• Drugs, Supplements and Herbal Information (MedlinePlus)
• Micromedex (see "Clinical Teaching" under any drug monograph) - $
• Drug Reference Search (Medscape)
• Postmarket Drug Safety Information for Patients and Providers (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
• SafeMedication (ASHP)

• Consumer Health Information in Many Languages Resources (National Network of Libraries of Medicine)
• Harborview Project: Accessing Online Information for Immigrant and Refugee Health (National Library of Medicine Minority Consumer Health Outreach Program)
• Health Information in Multiple Languages (MedlinePlus)
• Health Information Translations
• Health Information in your Language (Queensland Government)
• Multicultural Resources (Heart & Stroke Foundation of Nova Scotia)
• Patient Education Resources (EthnoMed)
• Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages (SPIRAL) (Tufts University)

• Condition Info (MedBroadcast)
• eMedicineHealth
•  e-Therapeutics+ - $
• Familydoctor.org (American Academy of Family Physicians)
• Health Information (Walgreens)
• Health Topics (MedlinePlus)
• Information from your family doctor (American Family Physician, regular feature) - $
• JAMA Patient Page (Journal of the American Medical Association, regular feature)
•  Lexi-Comp (see "Patient Education" tab) - $
• Mayo Clinic
• Page for Patients (Preventive Medicine, regular feature) - $
• Patient Notes (Postgraduate Medicine, regular feature)
• Patient Teaching Aids (U.S. Pharmacist)
• PubMed
  • From "Limits", select under "Type of Article": "Patient Education Handout". In the search box, enter the topic for which you seek patient education materials, e.g. Diabetes Mellitus
• Summaries for Patients (Annals of Internal Medicine) - $

• Patient Education and Counseling - $

• Patient Decision Aids (National Prescribing Centre)
• Patient Decision Aids (Ottawa Hospital Research Foundation)

*Recommended texts are linked to publishers' or book sellers' websites for further ordering information

• Communication Skills for Pharmacists: Building Relationships, Improving Patient Care (Berger/APhA, 3rd ed. 2009) - $
• Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs: An Interactive Approach to Self-Care (Barros, 18th ed. 2015)
• Medication Teaching Manual: The Guide to Patient Drug Information(ASHP, 8th ed. 2004) - $
• Patient Self-Care (CPhA, 2002) - see Communicating with Patients - $
• Pharmacists Talking with Patients: A Guide to Patient Counseling(Rantucci, 2nd ed. 2006) - $