Exercise is Medicine Guide for Physicians

Exercise is Medicine™ Health Care Providers' Action Guide High Resolution (for printing) Low Resolution (for online viewing and e-mailing) . Action Guide Supplemental Materials Starting an Exercise Program Patient Handout Your Prescription for Health flier series (Information and recommendations for exercising safely with a variety of health conditions) Physician Office Flier (low resolution: for e-mailing and online viewing) Physician Office Flier (high resolution: for printing) Appendix A: Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire Appendix B: Exercise Prescription and Referral Form Appendix C: Physical Activity Clearance Form

OTIS: Hotline for Information about Drugs and Exposures in Pregnancy

OTIS: Organization of Teratology Information Specialists

OTIS, the Organization of Teratology Information Specialists, is a non-profit organization made up of individual services (TIS) throughout North America. They are dedicated to providing accurate evidence-based, clinical information to patients and health care professionals about exposures during pregnancy and lactation. Resources also available in Spanish.

National Referral Number 1-866-626-6847

Fact Sheets

Emergency Medicine Diagnosis at a Glance

Emergency Medicine journal has Diagnosis at a Glance, case photos submitted by physicians. Test your diagnostic abilities.

First Watch: Journal Updates

JournalWatch: Physician's First Watch

A free daily alert on current news that affects your practice — from medical journals, government agencies, scientific conferences, and major media reports.

Physician’s First Watch is your FREE daily dose of the handful of medical news stories and announcements you need to know about — delivered to your inbox each weekday morning.

First Watch is part of a website from the publishers of the New England Journal of Medicine.

List of Journals Watched

Rheumatology Image Bank

The American College of Rheumatology has created an online collection of rheumatology-related images. Serving as a centralized resource for clinicians, researchers and health care professionals, the Rheumatology Image Bank provides assistance in self-study. Excel your knowledge by exploring more than 1,500 images of rheumatic diseases ranging from common conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis and gout to rare conditions including multicentric reticulohistiocytosis, relapsing polychondritis and the various heritable disorders of the connective tissue.

PsychSolve: New Harbinger Press Mental Health Problem Solver

PsychSolve is published by New Harbinger Press and is written by Jeffrey C. Wood, Psy.D.,a licensed psychologist and author of Getting Help.
Info is aimed at patients, with brief entries about diagnosis, cause, and treatment on topics such as:

1. Common problems such as depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, phobias, trauma, drug and alcohol problems, low self-esteem, and stress
2. Relationship problems
3. Eating disorders
4. Chronic pain issues

Acid-Base Tutorial

Dr. Grogono has created an Acid-Base Tutorial with terminology, history, physiology, and diagrams. Peer-reviewed by MedEd Portal of AAMC.

Getting Started

Physiology and history are both good places to start for most people.
Alternatively, use the Index to select the topic that interests you most.

The Auscultation Assistant: Hear Heart and Breath Sounds

The Auscultation Assistant was created by Chris Cable, in his fourth year of medical school at UCLA primarily for second-year medical students to help them appreciate the different audio characteristics of heart murmurs and breath sounds. Click on the above tabs to cross between general categories, and use the text buttons to the left to reach individual topics within each area. Enjoy!

Resources for Counseling Patients

Demystifying CBT: Effective, easy-to-use treatment for depression and anxiety Provide empiric tools to help patients explore the validity of their thoughts and the impact of their behaviors with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Article from the Journal of Family Practice.

Patient Stages of Change in quitting smoking

Motivational Interviewing to helps patients in the examination and resolution of ambivalence about making health behavior changes

Principles
"Traps"
Interaction Techniques
Strategies

Family Practice Management Toolbox

The Journal of Family Practice Management, published by AAFP, has a Family Practice Management Toolbox. The FPM Toolbox offers more than 150 practice management tools that you can download for free.

A sampling of topics:

• Care Management
• Career Management
• Coding: CPT
• Coding: ICD-9
• Disease Management: Asthma
• Disease Management: Diabetes
• Financial Management
• Flow Sheets
• Group Visits
• HIPAA
• Inpatient Care
• Life Balance
• Managed Care
• Medicare
• Office Policy Samples
• Patient Handouts
• Patient Surveys/Questionnaires
• Practice Improvement
• Productivity
• Referral Management
• Risk Calculators

ICSI: Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement

If you are looking for a guideline for treatment, ICSI is notable for their generous use of evaluation and treatment algorithms, flow charts and indication of levels of evidence.

The Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement is a collaborative of insurance companies and hospitals which produces guidelines for patient care. Clinicians from member organizations survey scientific literature and draft health care recommendations based on the best available evidence. These documents are subjected to an intensive review process that involves physicians and other health care professionals from ICSI member organizations before they are made available for general use.

• Behavioral Health Guidelines
  Guidelines, order sets and protocols related to emotional, mental, or behavioral health conditions.
• Cardiovascular Guidelines
  Guidelines, order sets and protocols related to heart disease, hypertension, and other causes of cardiovascular disease.
• Musculo-Skeletal Disorders Guidelines
  Guidelines, order sets and protocols related to muscular or skeletal conditions.
• Patient Safety & Reliability Guidelines
  Guidelines, order sets, and protocols related to a variety of patient safety issues in the inpatient and outpatient care setting.

• Preventive & Health Maintenance Guidelines
  Guidelines, order sets and protocols related to maintaining good health, immunizations, or preventing illness or disease development.
• Respiratory Disease Guidelines
  Guidelines, order sets and protocols related to respiratory illness or lung disease.
• Women's Health Guidelines
  Guidelines, order sets and protocols related to obstetric and gynecologic health conditions.
• Other Health Care Conditions Guidelines
  Guidelines, order sets and protocols related to a variety of health care conditions not included in specific categories.

Suicide Prevention Resources for Primary Care

The Suicide Prevention Resource Center has a listing of resources for Primary Care Physicians.

• The Role of Primary Care Physicians in Preventing Suicide
• Recognizing the Warning Signs
• Responding to the Warning Signs
• Helping Yourself and Your Colleagues
• References
• Resources
  • Resources for Primary Care Physicians
  • General Resources on Suicide and Suicide Prevention

Online Guide to $4.00 Prescriptions

There are several sources of information on low cost generic drugs, and patient assistance for getting prescriptions they can't afford.


Wal*Mart's $4 prescription plan hundreds of generic prescription drugs and more than 1,000 over-the-counter medications at $4 per 30-day supply, plus $10 for a 90-day supply of selected drugs.
Target's $4 prescription plan save on over 300 generic prescription drugs at $4 per 30-day supply.
RxAssist streamlines the application process for the pharmaceutical industry's patient assistance programs.
Needy Meds is a non-profit organization with a big collection of resources on patient assistance programs for prescriptions for specific diseases, and by region.


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