Healthcare consumers and patients have several sources for decision support information:  their physician’s office, a medical advice helpline, the Internet and now the iPhone or other mobile device.  Self Care Decisions recognizes the need for consumers’ decision-support tools to be consistent with the advice they would receive from their own physicians.  

Physician-authors Drs. Schmitt and Thompson are best known for the decision support protocols they have written for use by physician offices and after-hours medical advice help lines. HouseCalls, SymptomMD and Parent Advice Messages are consistent with the authors’ professional-level clinical content – but adapted to the terms and common situations described by consumers: parents, grandparents, teens, adults.

Consumers can access the symptom checking tools and care advice with confidence, knowing that their own physicians rely on the same, time-tested information.