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General Resources about Quality of Care:


Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Questions you can ask to help improve the quality of your care or that of a loved one:

http://www.ahrq.gov/questionsaretheanswer

Ask Me 3

Three questions to ask your doctor, nurse or pharmacist.

http://www.npsf.org/askme3/for_patients.php

Consumermedsafety.org

Resources to help prevent medication errors sponsored by the non-profit Institute for Safe Medication Practices.

http://www.consumermedsafety.org

Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care

A research and policy oriented website that documents the variations in health care nationwide. Sophisticated users will find a wealth of information about how communities and hospitals vary on many measures of performance:

http://www.dartmouthatlas.org

A good overview is found on Topic Brief on Effective Care [pdf].


The Empowered Patient Coalition

A consumer site that provides a variety of factsheets, checklists and other resources about patient safety and medical decision making.

http://www.empoweredpatientcoalition.org/

The Joint Commission

Speak Up offers a variety of brochures about patient safety and patient rights by the organization that reviews quality in the nation's hospitals and other health care settings. Also available in Spanish.

http://www.jointcommission.org/GeneralPublic/Speak%2BUp/

Information for parents about preventing medical errors in your child's care:

http://www.jointcommission.org/PatientSafety/SpeakUp/sp_peds.htm

National Institutes of Health

Resources about talking to your doctor

http://www.nih.gov/clearcommunication/talktoyourdoctor.htm

The Partnership for Healthcare Excellence

A MA-based non-profit that provides a variety of useful information about getting quality care, including a directory of credible websites and research on health care quality.

http://www.partnershipforhealthcare.org/

The Prepared Patient Resources

A set of articles and links collected by the non-profit Center for Advancing Health that provides information about being a patient.

http://www.cfah.org/resources/intro.cfm
Page last updated: Oct 15 2009