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MyHealth.Alberta.ca This link opens in a new window
Use MyHealth Alberta to find easy to understand health information on many topics, watch videos and access tools such as a symptom checker.
MedlinePlus This link opens in a new window
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Use Medline Plus to search topics in health information for patients and families. Included are videos, interactive calculators and games.

American Thoracic Society Patient Resources
More than 100 fact sheets on topics in pulmonary/critical care/sleep ranging from pulmonary function testing in children, bronchoscopy, and arterial catheterization to sleep studies, smoking cessation, unproven stem cell therapy and pulmonary rehabilitation.
Breathe: The Lung Association (National)
The Canadian Lung Association is a source of evidence-based, user-friendly patient resources, including fact sheets, videos and more.
Canadian Kidney Knowledge Translation and Generation Network Educational Tools
Canadian Society of Nephrology Patient Resources
Family Physician Airways Group of Canada Tools & Resources
GI Society (Canadian Society of Intestinal Research) Patient Information
The GI Society provides free information packages and printable PDFs for individuals looking for information about gastrointestinal and liver diseases/disorders.

AHS-reviewed and Alberta-optimized patient teaching handouts are available within Connect Care and at MyHealth.Alberta.ca/handouts. Within Connect Care, educational handouts are about care instructions related to various medical conditions, treatments, medications, before and after care as well as brief general info. These can be favorited by HCPs for future quick access, personalized with some specific instructions to a patient and then added to the After Visit Summary.

Lippincott, DynaMed, and Lexidrug offer additional sources of patient information, which you may consider using to support your patient's information needs. Use your clinical judgment when deciding if one of these supplementary sources is right for your patient. In DynaMed, use the search box to find a relevant topic, and use the left side navigation to select the "Patient Information" heading. In Lippincott Advisor, see the "Patient Teaching Handouts" section and in Lexidrug you'll find a "Patient Education" tab in the top menu.

See our related FAQ - What source should I use for patient education materials?

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