Quality of Health Care

Hospital Compare
(Department of Health & Human Services)

This site 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. Talk to your doctor about this information to help you, your family and your friends make your best hospital care decisions. There is a hospital checklist that wil help you choose a hospital and links to sites that have information about patients rights, Medicare, and more.

https://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/search.html

Improving Health Care Quality
(Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ))

This guide for patients and families discusses issues like how quality care is measured, how to make informed decisions, and how to find out about clinical trials.

http://archive.ahrq.gov/consumer/qntlite/

Your Guide to choosing quality health care.
(Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ))

This guide was prepared to help you make better health care decisions. From this page, you can choose to view the guide in your browser (HTML files) or in PDF format. Instructions for downloading Adobe Acrobat Reader are included.

http://archive.ahrq.gov/consumer/qntool.htm

Last Modified: Thursday March 01, 2012 3:41 PM