| Sumario: | The New York University (NYU) Langone Medical Center Patient Education Handout Database, used largely by clinicians to connect patients with timely Joint Commission-compliant patient education materials, was converted from a paper-based to an online database-generated system. This change required the participation of a multidisciplinary team made up of hospital and library staff to select, construct, and maintain the database, craft an end-user web interface, and create and sustain metadata that allows for faceted searching. Greener and more nimble, the system enhances patient safety by allowing for instantaneous updates of outdated material, immediate inclusion of new hospital-vetted information, and on-demand printouts in multiple languages.
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