Patient Education

Vetted patient-facing handouts. All are written and edited by clinicians (or under medical-society editorial review) and free.

Pediatric

• HealthyChildren.org (AAP) — AAP-published patient companion to Bright Futures; age-organized.
• KidsHealth (Nemours) — peer-reviewed pediatric content from Nemours Foundation; parent, kid, and teen reading levels.
• CDC Parents’ Resources — CDC-authored handouts on milestones, vaccines, growth, and safety.
• Zero to Three — evidence-based early childhood development handouts for parents of 0–3 yr.

Adult

• MedlinePlus (NLM) — National Library of Medicine consumer health portal; medications, conditions, lab tests; multilingual.
• CDC patient resources index — condition-specific handouts.
• AHRQ Patient Resources — shared decision-making aids and questions to ask.

Drugs (consumer)

• MedlinePlus Drug Information — NLM consumer drug monographs; companion to DailyMed.
• LactMed for clinicians + parents — peer-reviewed lactation safety; also useful to share with patients.

Shared decision-making aids

• Mayo Clinic Shared Decision Making National Resource Center — peer-reviewed decision aids for diabetes, statins, anticoagulation, and more.
• Option Grid Decision Aids — evidence-based comparison tables for shared decision-making.
• Choosing Wisely Patient Resources — patient-facing summaries of society “do not do” recommendations.
• Ottawa Hospital Patient Decision Aids Inventory — Ottawa Decision Support Framework; rigorously evaluated decision aids by topic.

Specialty

• Reproductive Health Access Project Patient Materials — multilingual contraception + abortion patient handouts.
• Bedsider — Power to Decide patient-facing contraception portal.
• Smokefree.gov (NIH) — NIH-developed tobacco-cessation resources including quitlines and adolescent-specific programs.
• Drugfree.org / Partnership to End Addiction — parent + caregiver resources for adolescent substance use.