Stay ahead of your patients

Do patients come to you with the latest research in hand, asking you for specific diagnostic tests or treatments? Do you wish you heard about these things before they did? How do you provide patient education when they know more than you? Would you like to be better prepared, but don’t have the time to keep up with all the new research?

Here’s a painless way to have the latest evidence-based information, specific to your clinical area, come to you. You can now customize your e-mails or RSS-feeds based upon your particular interests. Here are their instructions:

You can go to any of the health topic pages in MedlinePlus and subscribe to updates right from the page. There are over 800 topics in English, over 770 topics en español, and a variety of other health-related e-mail lists in English and Spanish. To see how it works, go to the Diabetes page at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/diabetes.html, and look for the box under the summary section where you can enter your email address.

You can also visit the MedlinePlus subscription options pages for MedlinePlus and MedlinePlus en español. Whenever MedlinePlus adds new information on a topic page to which you are subscribed, you will receive an e-mail alert to notify you of the new materials. To set your subscription options, click on the “E-mail Updates and RSS” link on the lower right side of the home page. (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/listserv.html)

This service is also offered by other agencies, like
The CDC

http://www.cdc.gov/emailupdates/index.html

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

http://www.nih.gov/email.htm

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

http://www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/index.cfm/join-the-email-list1/

and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/ContactFDA/StayInformed/GetEmailUpdates/default.htm

Have the news you choose come to you! Our tax money at work.