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Consumer Health & Participation

Consumer health and participation - key sources

Access Medicine Patient Education Handouts
Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights
Better Health Channel
BMJ Best Practice Patient Leaflets
Choice and Medication - WA Health
Provides information about psychotropic medications to consumers and their carers and families who are receiving healthcare provided by the Health Services that are part of the WA Department of Health.
ClinicalKey Patient Handouts
Cochrane Consumer Network
ConnectGroups: helping support groups and individuals
Consumer and Community Health Research Network
Consumers Health Forum of Australia
DIPEx International
Experience-Based Co-Design: a toolkit for Australia - Australian Healthcare & Hospitals Association - 21 December 2017
Going to hospital, booklets, going home checklist, patient safety care - WA Department of Health
Health Consumers' Council of WA
HealthTalk.org
HealthTalk Australia
HealthDirect
International Alliance of Patients' Organizations
International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM)
Kids Health Information – Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne
MedlinePlus
The US National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends
Pathology Texts Explained (PTEx) - formerly called Lab Tests Online Australasia
Patient Experience Library
Patient Information Forum [UK]
Patient Reported Outcome Measures lists - The lists of validated PROMs have been developed to support the identification of validated measures and the use of PROMs in Australia
PIF Tick - Patient information Forum - credentialled trusted information
Shared decision making from the perspective of clinicians and healthcare professionals - The Patients Association [UK] - June 2022
UpToDate Patient Drug Information
UpToDate Patient Education
Valuing Lived Experience - Learning Report - National Voices - May 2022