Managing Health Information
Evaluating Health Information
- Guide to Healthy Web Surfing (MedlinePlus)
- How to Evaluate Health Information on the Internet (National Cancer Institute)
- User's Guide to Finding and Evaluating Health Information on the Web (Medical Library Association)
Talking With Your Doctor
- Be an Active Member of Your Health Care Team (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
- Patient Safety (Patient Education Institute)
- Questions to Ask Your Doctor Before You Have Surgery (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
- Talking with Your Doctor (MedlinePlus)
Choosing a Doctor or Health Service
- Choosing a Doctor or Health Care Service (MedlinePlus)
- DrScore (DrScore.com)
Find and post patient ratings of physicians. - Hospital Compare (U. S. Department of Health & Human Services)
- How to Choose a Nursing Home (NC Health Care Facilities Association)
- NC Medical Board
Look up the public record of any licensed physician, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner in North Carolina; learn how to file a complaint; and view reports on Board actions. - Nursing Home Compare (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services)
- Quality Check (Joint Commission)
- RateMDs.com (RateMDs.com)
Find and post patient ratings of physicians. - Your Guide to Choosing Quality Health Care (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
Patient & Family Issues
- Advance Directives (MedlinePlus)
- Advance Health Care Directive Registry (NC Department of the Secretary of State)
- Advance Medical Directives (Patient Education Institute)
- Caregivers (MedlinePlus)
- Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care (Patient Education Institute)
- End of Life Issues (MedlinePlus)
- Family History (MedlinePlus)
- Patient Safety (MedlinePlus)
- Patients' Bill of Rights (Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection & Quality in the Health Care Industry)
These principles make clear what patients should expect from their health care providers. - Personal Medical Records (MedlinePlus)
- Personalized Help (Patient Advocate Foundation)
- Social/Family Issues (MedlinePlus)
- The Living Will (Patient Education Institute)
Resources compiled by the Health Sciences Library at UNC-Chapel Hill.