| Resource |
Access |
Description |
| MedlinePlus free
|
Access is free
|
Has extensive consumer health and patient education
information on over 650 diseases and conditions. There are also lists of
hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary,
health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and
nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to
thousands of clinical trials. Be sure to link to Georgia GoLocal for health
providers in our area. |
| ClinicalKey Patient Educationvia Mercer University School of Medicine |
On Campus, no login. Off Campus:
Students and Faculty,
use your Mercer email username (e.g. smith_ab) and password. |
More than 15,000 peer-reviewed educational handouts
from ExitCare, American Academy of Family Physicians and Ferric Netter Patient
Advisor, along with drug-related handouts from Elsevier Gold Standard.
Comprehensive, clear language from reading levels 5th grade through 8th grade.
Handouts available in English and Spanish |
| AccessMedicine Patient Education via Mercer University School of
Medicine |
On Campus, no login. Off Campus:
Students and Faculty,
use your Mercer email username (e.g. smith_ab) and password. |
Includes over 100 patient education handouts on broad,
common topics such as "skin cancer." Each handout summarizes basic information
about a condition and provides treatment options. From the AccessMedicine
homepage, click on "Patient Ed" tab at top to view the titles of the
handouts. |
| PEACHI (Patient Information) free |
Access is free
|
Links to a large number of medical
information sites organized under subject categories. |
| Dynamed Plus via Mercer University School of Medicine |
On Campus, no login. Off Campus:
Students and Faculty,
use your Mercer email username (e.g. smith_ab) and password. |
Topic articles in DynaMed Plus include
a section for patient information. It provides links to several different
patient information resources and handouts in both English and
Spanish. |
