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Resources
Here are some good links to start your search for information on a variety of healthcare
topics.
Inclusion on this resource list does not imply a recommendation or endorsement of
the resource nor the accuracy of information on third party Web sites. See
NJHA Terms of Use.
Contents:
Choosing a Hospital
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Before Entering a Hospital; Second Opinions; Surgery
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Health Insurance Coverage
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Your Patient Rights
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Advance Medical Directives
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"Put It In Writing"
American Hospital Association (AHA). Offers a compilation of key resources that
provide basic facts about advance directives and encourages patients to explore
their preferences for care at the end of life. It includes easy to read advance
directives, free, state specific advance directives, advice for communicating wishes
to family and close friends and discusses legal myths. Documenting your wishes today
means your family won't have to make heart-wrenching decisions later.
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More Hospital Compare Web Sites
- Hospital Compare: A Quality Tool for Adults, Including People with
Medicare
[Web Site]. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
"This tool provides you with information on how well the hospitals in your area
care for all their adult patients with certain medical conditions. This information
will help you compare the quality of care hospitals provide. Hospital Compare was
created through the efforts of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
and organizations that represent hospitals, doctors, employers, accrediting organizations,
other Federal agencies and the public. Talk to your doctor about this information
to help you, your family and your friends make your best hospital care decisions."
- Hospital Performance
Report.
[Web Site]. Trenton, NJ: N.J. Department of Health and Senior Services.
Select hospital comparisons are provided on an interactive Web site where consumers
can create charts comparing hospitals and review each hospital's performance over
time. Consumer information also is provided including hospital patient rights, filing
hospital complaints, taking an active role in your healthcare and how to choose
a hospital or physician.
- Quality Check: The Joint
Commission
[Web Site]. Chicago, IL: The Joint Commission. Quality Check is a comprehensive
guide to the nearly 15,000 Joint Commission-accredited health care organizations
and programs throughout the United States, including hospitals. It features a user-friendly
format with checks, pluses and minuses to help you compare health care organization
performance in a number of key areas. It provides information about a hospital's
Joint Commission accreditation decisions and accredited programs, any special quality
awards, a hospital's compliance with the Joint Commission's National Patient Safety
Goals, and its performance on National Quality Improvement Goals including children's
asthma care, heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, pregnancy and related conditions,
and surgical infection prevention.
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More Patient Safety Resources
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Caring Conversations™
Center for Practical Bioethics. [Web Site]. Accessed: July 13, 2006.
A consumer education initiative to help individuals and their families with end-of-life
care. Each copy of Caring Conversations includes a healthcare directive document
and a durable power of attorney for healthcare decisions.
- Center for Medical
Consumers
[Web Site]. Greenwich Village, NY: The Center.
- Consumer Health
Ratings.com
Consumer Health Ratings is dedicated to providing consumers with information they
can use to make better-informed decisions about their health care. This Web site
provides the most comprehensive listing of organizations that rate or report performance
on specific hospitals, health plans, physicians, nursing homes, home health agencies
and other health care providers in the United States.
- Consumers Advancing Patient
Safety (CAPS)
[Web Site]. Chicago, IL: CAPS.
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- Health On the Net Foundation (HON)
[Web Site]. Geneva, Switzerland: HON.
- Health Privacy Project
[Web Site]. Washington, DC: Health Privacy Project.
- HealthyNJ
This Web site is by the University Libraries at the University of Medicine and Dentistry
of New Jersey. The content is designed to meet the information needs of consumers,
with particular emphasis on New Jersey resources and needs.
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- Medicare Rights Center:
Your Guide Through the Medicare Maze
[Web Site]. New York, NY: The Medicare Rights Center.
- Medicare: The Official U.S.
Government Site for People With Medicare
[Web Site]. Washington, DC: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Department
of Health and Human Services.
- MEDLINEplus®
[Web Site]. Bethesda, MD: National Library of Medicine. The premier resource for
up-to-date, authoritative and qualitative health information from the world's largest
medical library, the National Library of Medicine. Includes extensive information
from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 600 diseases
and conditions. Provides lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia,
a medical dictionary, health information in Spanish, prescription and nonprescription
drugs, health information from the media and links to thousands of clinical trials.
Updated daily, this Web site has no advertising.
- myHealthFinder.com
[Web Site]. Buffalo, NY: Niagara Health Quality Coalition.
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- New Jersey Hospital Association, Quality Institute. "For Consumers"
Provides a consumer safety brochure, a medication card and NJHA messages about patient
safety and healthcare quality.
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- The Pocket Guide to
Staying Healthy at 50+
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released a booklet for older
adults that incorporates new research-based recommendations from the U. S. Preventive
Services Task Force. The guide in available in English and Spanish and includes
tips and recommendations on good health habits, screening tests and immunizations.
- PSNet Patient Safety Network
[Web Site]. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
This portal provides resources for improving patient safety and preventing medical
errors for many audiences. It can help consumers learn about all aspects of the
topic. To find the resources specifically for a healthcare consumer, go to section
marked 'Browse by Subject' and click on the link labeled 'Target Audience.' Then
choose the link for either 'Patients' or 'Non-Healthcare Professionals.'
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- Questions
Are the Answer: Get More Involved With Your Healthcare
[Web Site]. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
AHRQ has released public service advertisements designed to encourage consumers
to get involved in their health care by knowing and asking appropriate questions
when visiting their doctor or other clinicians.
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