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Patient Centered Medical Home
Patient Centered Medical Home is defined as an approach to providing comprehensive primary care that facilitates partnerships between individual patients, and their personal physicians and when appropriate, the patient’s family. This video will describe more about the Patient Centered Medical Home.
Get more information on Patient Centered Medical Home:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_centered_medical_home#Projects_evaluating_medical_home_concepts
- http://pcpcc.net/content/patient-centered-medical-home
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask your physician.
UpToDate
Get answers to many of your clinical questions
MedPeds recommends a very informative and useful online resource -- UpToDate. UpToDate is a worldwide clinical community that can help answer many of your clinical questions.
Check out UpToDate and see for yourself.
UpToDate supports several ways of access:
- Online access (desktop and PDA)
- Desktop installations (Windows and Macintosh)
- PDA installations (Pocket PC, Smartphone, and Palm)
Patient Education Videos
Education is the best medicine
MedPeds has partnered with wired.MD to bring you these patient education videos. We believe that these web-based videos are sure to provide you with valuable information on these important topics.
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| Did you know that high cholesterol can increase your risk of heart attack or stroke? Get more facts on cholesterol. This video explains some important facts that you'll want to know. | Hypertension - or high blood pressure - affects nearly 1 in 3 adults in the United States. Get more facts on hyperstension. This video explains some important facts that you'll want to know. | Diabetes is a disease that keeps the body from turning food into energy. Get more facts on Type 2 Diabetes. This video explains some important facts that you'll want to know. |


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