[NIFL-HEALTH:4337] "Prescribe" health care information to patients; The Healthy

From: Hodorowski, Julie K./Sloan-Kettering Institute (hodorowj@MSKCC.ORG)
Date: Thu Feb 26 2004 - 16:35:36 EST


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Dear Colleagues,

Items of interest.

A good overview of a pilot project involving The American College of
Physicians and the National Library of Medicine's to "prescribe" health
care information to patients appears on the Virginia Council of Health
Sciences Librarians' Website at 
<http://www.cbil.vcu.edu/mac/vacohsl/informationprescription.htm>


The Healthy People Library Project 
<http://www.healthlit.org/>
Recommended resources: health literacy see
<http://www.healthlit.org/health_resources/health_literacy.htm>

Julie Keany Hodorowski RN, MA
Information Service Manager
Cancer Information Service of New York 
National Cancer Institute
Phone: 212-593-8245
Fax: 212-593-9154
Email: hodorowj@mskcc.org



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