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This page provides access to a comprehensive list of internet sites offering sound, reliable medical information and expertise to GPs, including information to give to patients. This selection is the compilation of the favourite sites kindly provided by a number of NZ GPs. If you have others to add, please email us at help@goodfellowclub.org.

• New Zealand medical/health organisations
• General health information
• Prescribing
• Travel medicine & infectious diseases
• Dermatology
• Practice support
• Calculators and Algorithms
• General patient information
• Specific patient information
• Medical e-textbooks

 

New Zealand medical/health organisations

• Medical Council of New Zealand
• RNZCGP
• Ministry of Health
• ACC
• Immunisation Advisory Centre
• New Zealand Guideline Group (NZGG)
• Diagnostic Medlab (includes handbook)
• Health and Disability Commissioner
• NZ College of Primary Health Care Nurses

General health information

• NZ: National library directory of health resources 
• World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians (WONCA) Global Doctor 
• UK: GPnotebook: UK online encyclopaedia of medicine 
• US: Center for Disease Control (CDC)
• US: E-medicine - open access medical textbook
• CALM - Computer Assisted Learning for the Mind

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Prescribing

• Medsafe
• Medsafe data sheets
• Pharmac special authority forms
• Pharmac pharmaceutical schedule
• Australian Therapeutic Goods administration (TGA)
• Drugs in pregnancy
• BPAC including case studies
• Palliative drugs
• Drug information on-line
• Therapeutic guidelines
• Contraception

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Travel medicine and infectious diseases

• Fit for travel
• Center for Disease Control (CDC)
• WHO travel
• Pandemic influenza planning

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Dermatology

• Dermnet NZ
• Dermatology image atlas
• DermIS
• Dermatological atlas (Loyola University)

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Practice support

• Ebizdocz practice quality manager
• Healthy business (Medical assurance)

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Calculators and algorithms

• Medical calculators
• Medical algorithms
• Pregnancy calculator
• Breast cancer risk calculator

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General patient information

• NZ: Everybody
• NZ: Family Doctor
• NZ Healthpoint: information about providers, referral expectations, services offered and common treatments
• UK: patient information
• UK: NHS patient information
• UK: BMJ Best treatments (evidence for patients)
• UK: general medical information
• US: family health information
• US: My WebMD
• US: Up-To-Date free patient information
• US: Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) health information
• German (in English): informed health evidence-based information

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Specific patient information

• Medsafe patient information on drugs
• Cancer information (Australia Cancer Council)
• Coping with depression(PDF)
• Sleep problems
• Interactive ear
• Information on ear, nose & throat
• eOrthopod – patient guide to orthopaedics
• Resources for adolescents
• Multi-lingual health resources
• Health on the Net portal 

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Medical e-textbooks (subscription fees required)

• MD Consult (includes primary care section First Consult) 
• Up-to-Date 
• Dynamic Medical (Dynamed)

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