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RxFiles Tools and Resources Links |
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PATIENT HANDOUTS & TOOLS |
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A single page handout addressing some of
the most common questions and concerns for patients who are undergoing or
considering undergoing sedative therapy for insomnia. |
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Single page printout of a Responsible Psychostimulant Drug Therapy Patient Agreement Form. |
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This handout is designed for patients
undergoing acne therapy with Accutane, to help them
keep track of how they are coping with the drug between visits to the
physician. |
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Very succinct patient handout addressing
major goals of post-MI therapy from the patient’s perspective. Includes risk-factor and drug therapy
management sections. |
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Very handy tool for anyone with dietary
restrictions – provides a calorie counter, organized by raw ingredient,
ethnicity, restaurant name, or food brand name. |
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Provides a simple BMI calculation tool
in both Metric and Imperial measures. |
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A patient
friendly information sheet on managing asthma exacerbations. |
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Tells the patient what do when someone
has the flu. |
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Explains how to select the best needles,
use the best techniques and sites of injection. |
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A sheet used to keep track of all the
used patches. |
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Single page
printout of a Responsible Opioid Therapy Patient
Agreement form. Also available as a modifiable WORD
document. |
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A 2-page
document outlining the risks and benefits of taking opioids. |
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MEDICAL SEARCH & DATABASE TOOLS |
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A comprehensive list of all practice
guidelines for the (ex. Stroke,
Diagnosis and initial management of acute stroke and transient ischaemic attach (TIA).) |
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Complete listing of clinical practice
guidelines for (ex. 2013
CHEP Recommendations for Management of Hypertension) (Note: Site uses popup windows - your browser may interfere) |
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“The TRIP Database
is a clinical search tool designed to allow health professionals to
rapidly identify the highest quality clinical evidence for clinical practice.” –TRIP Website Registration not
required, but FREE. |
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The Database of Abstracts of Reviews of
Effects contains thousands of quality assessed reviews and abstracts,
focusing on the effects of interventions used in health and social care. |
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British search tool that
cross-references many online health care resources (ex. PubMed,
National Clearinghouse Guidelines, Online Medical Dictionary, Merck Manual,
etc.) |
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Search engine that indexes various
online databases such as MEDLINE, DARE, Cochrane, Wikipedia, etc. Will automatically refine the search
parameters if an overwhelming number of hits for a search come up, but also
expands its parameters if too few results come up – very intuitive. |
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PRIMARY CARE & ASSESSMENT TOOLS |
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An organization committed to providing
evidence-based algorithms for the use of health care professionals, covering
a wide range of topics and disciplines.
Registration is required but all content is FREE. |
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Links to |
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The complete
digital version of Bugs & Drugs, a reference for the empiric
administration of antibiotics. |
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A pair of useful, quick-reference tables for
assessing the severity of infection for a patient suffering from
community-acquired pneumonia. |
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A visual CVD risk assessment tool
relating age, sex, smoking history and diabetic status, created by the New
Zealand Guidelines Group. |
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A listing of drugs known to exhibit
distinct anticholinergic effects, including a list
of possible alternatives to these drugs when anticholinergic
effects are undesirable. |
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Online algorithm that calculates the
10-year likelihood of a patient developing coronary heart disease, based on
the |
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Simple guide on dosing of digoxin in patients with systolic heart failure. |
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A quick reference for adjusting the
dosage of furosemide in order to compensate for
changes in weight due to shifting fluid balance. |
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Brief flowchart highlighting scenarios
that warrant renal function monitoring in patients with diabetes mellitus. |
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An online breast cancer risk assessment tool
following the Gail model. This tool is
based on the NCI breast cancer
assessment tool, with a few risk modifier questions added. |
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MISCELLANEOUS |
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Provides links to several national and
provincial (SK) bodies concerning the pandemic H1N1 influenza virus, as well
as few dedicated coverage websites set up by major medical journals. |
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Contains contact information for various
regional health care services provided to |
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A current (Apr/10) list of all
accredited asthma educators in |
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A set of EBM tools provided by the
Centre of Evidence Based Medicine – includes a stats calculator, NNT-OR converter,
NNT tables, Likelihood ratio tables, and more… |
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