Patient Education Handouts (in English)
FamilyDoctor.org (web site) – FamilyDoctor.org is a web site produced by the American Academy of Family Physicians. It includes patient information handouts in English and Spanish on a variety of conditions, illnesses, and also preventive care.
Choosing Wisely: Primary Care (web site) – FamilyDoctor.org offers this series of handouts to help educate patients on the use of antibiotics for pediatric ear infections and sinus infections; indications for DEXA scans, stress tests, and back imaging; the risks of early induction in pregnancy; and new guidelines for pap smears.
Breast-Feeding: Parent Guidelines for Expectations Re: Frequency of Feedings, Stools, and Tummy Size (pdf) – The first page of this pdf provides a fantastic visual for breast-feeding parents about how large an infant’s stomach size is and expected frequency of feedings and character/timing of stools and wet diapers in the first month of life
CHOP Patient Education Web site on Aluminum in Vaccines (web site) – Children’s Hospital of Philadelpia web site is directed towards parents/patients with at least a high-school level education
CHOP Patient Education Handout on Vaccine Ingredients (pdf) – Children’s Hospital of Philadelpia handout is directed towards parents/patients with at least a high-school level education and discusses the indications and risks of different vaccine ingredients
The Healthy Eating Plate (jpg) – Harvard School of Public Health offers an example of what a healthy plate should look like, with detailed explanations of what to eat in each food group
The Healthy Eating Pyramid (jpg) – Harvard School of Public Health offers an example of what a healthy lifestyle should look like
Patient Education Handouts (multilingual)
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning (multilingual) (web site) – The King County, WA Public Health Department web site offers flyers with facts on carbon monoxide poisoning in multiple languages
Child development & Tummy Time handouts (web site) – Pathways.org offers handouts on normal child development and tummy time in multiple languages
Medication/Drug/Herbal Safety During Pregnancy & Breast-feeding (pdfs) – The OTIS web site offers a series of fact sheets which summarize known research on the safety of drug/medication/herbal exposures during pregnancy and breast-feeding. Fact sheets available in English & Spanish
RHIN Resources (web site) – Refugee Health Information Network offers a wide array of patient education videos, audio, and handouts in a huge number of languages.
EthnoMed Multilingual Resources (web site) – EthnoMed offers patient education videos and pamphlets on a variety of health topics (HIV, diabetes, asthma, colorectal cancer screening, explanations of other procedures) in a variety of languages (Somali, Oromo, Amharic, Tigrinya, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Spanish).
NN/LM Link Repository for Multilingual Resources (web site) – The National Network of Libraries of Medicine offers a massive set of links to multilingual health literature.
Smoking Cessation
Ashline (Arizona) (web site) – A collection of personal stories and quit tools offered by the Arizona State Department of Health which you can refer your patients to in their path to smoking cessation.
Getting Help Quitting Tobacco (Washington) (web site) – Web site lists resources available to help with smoking cessation in the State of Washington, organized by health insurance status
Resources for Low-Income Patients
USDA Summer Food Service Program (web site) – No school lunch during the summer = no problem. Help your patients from low-income families discover healthy food resources during the summer.