Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Center for Quality Improvement & Patient Safety
The Nation's Lead Federal Agency for Research on Health Care
Quality, Costs, Outcomes, and Patient Safety
6011 Executive Blvd., Suite 200
Rockville, MD. 20852
(301) 594-1783
AHRQ's Quality Indicator Web Site:
www.qualityindicators.ahrq.gov
AARP site offers general rules to follow for evaluating the quality of
medical information on the Internet. The site provides a checklist of the things
you should know about judging the information on the Internet as well as
providing a series of links to other online informational resources. Evaluating
Medical Information on the Internet:
How Good Are Your Sources?
www.aarp.org/confacts/health/wwwhealth.html
American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians (ABQAURP)
Providing healthcare education and certification for physicians, nurses, and
other healthcare professionals.
Medical Error Prevention and Patient Safety (3 Credit Course)
www.abqaurp.org/module.asp?CourseID=14
" The Dartmouth
Atlas project is a funded research effort of the faculty of the Center for
the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth Medical School. The Atlas project
brings together researchers in diverse disciplines - including epidemiology,
economics, and statistics - and focuses on the accurate description of how
medical resources are distributed and used in the United States."
News Articles Related to the Dartmouth Atlas: www.dartmouthatlas.org/news.php
Emergency Care Research Institute (ECRI)
5200 Butler Pike
Plymouth Meeting, PA. 19462-1298
(610) 825-6000
www.ecri.org
www.mdsr.ecri.org (Medical Device Safety Reports)
Health Library at Stanford
This site is a health information library that provides scientifically-based
information to help people make informed decisions about their health and health
care. The Health Library is a community service of Stanford Hospital and
Clinics.
http://healthlibrary.stanford.edu
Health Privacy Project
Janlori Goldman, Director - (202) 721-5632
HEALTH PRIVACY PROJECT LAUNCHES
PRIVACY COMPLAINT MONITORING INITIATIVE
HPP to monitor HHS enforcement of New Medical Privacy Law
www.healthprivacy.org
Institute for Family-Centered Care
7900 Wisconsin Ave., Suite 405
Bethesda, MD. 20814
(301) 652-0281
www.familycenteredcare.org
Institute for Health Care Improvement
Pursuing Perfection: Raising the Bar for Health Care Performance
www.ihi.org/pursuingperfection
Institute of Medicine
Part of the National Academy of Sciences; publishers of objective and
authoritative information on a variety of health topics.
2101 Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20418 www.iom.edu
Patient Safety: www.iom.edu/IOM/IOMHome.nsf/Pages/Quality+Initiative
Institute of Medicine's 1999 Report, "To Err is Human: Building A Safer
Healthcare System"
http://books.nap.edu/html/to_err_is_human
Institute of Medicine's Report "Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System
for the 21st Century"
www.nap.edu/catalog/10027.html
Leapfrog Group
Site contains information on Leapfrog Group’s approach: emphasizing three of
their initiatives; computer physician order entry, evidence-based hospital
referral, and ICU
physician staffing.
C/O Academy
1801 K. St., NW, Suite 701-L
Washington, DC. 20006
(202) 292-6713
www.leapfroggroup.org
National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
2000 L Street, NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 955-3500
www.ncqa.org
National Mental Health Information Center
A clearinghouse for information and resources, news, and reading material on
mental health issues and conditions. www.mentalhealth.org
Consumer / Survivor (CMHS) Consumer Affairs E-News
August 5, 2003, Vol. 03-65
HHS ANNOUNCES CAMPAIGN WITH HOSPITALS AND PHYSICIANS TO DISTRIBUTE INFORMATION
ABOUT SAFER HEALTH CARE
www.mentalhealth.org/consumersurvivor/listserv/080503.asp
National Quality Forum
The mission of the NQF is to improve American healthcare through endorsement
of consensus-based national standards for measurement and public reporting of
healthcare performance data that provide meaningful information about whether
care is safe, timely, beneficial, patient-centered, equitable and efficient.
601 Thirteenth Street, NW
Suite 500 North
Washington, DC. 20005
(202) 783-1300
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) Watch is a nonprofit research, educational, and advocacy organization
that focuses on budget issues, regulatory policy, nonprofit advocacy, access to
government information, and activities at the Office of Management and
Budget(OMB).
www.ombwatch.org
World Health News
An online news digest from the Center for Health Communication at the
Harvard School of Public Health. The site covers critical public health issues
from around the world. It is designed to be a resource for an international
audience of policy makers and journalists as well as public health researchers,
practitioners, and advocates.
www.worldhealthnews.harvard.edu
World Health Organization Collaborating Center
www.ecri.org/documents/446958.asp
The Basics of FMEA
(Failure Mode and Effect Analysis) by McDermott, R; Mikulak, R; Beauregard, M.,
Productivity, Inc. 1-800-394-6868
Demanding Medical
Excellence: Doctors and Accountability in the Information Age by Michael
Millenson, University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0-226-0-226-52587-2
An interview with Michael L. Millenson, author of Demanding Medical
Excellence: Doctors and Accountability in the Information Age
www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/525872.html
Doing What Counts
for Patient Safety : Federal Actions to Reduce Medical Errors and Their Impact
by Donna
Shalala (Editor), Alexis
Herman (Editor) DIANE Publishing Co; ISBN: 0756715504; (August 2000)
Error
Reduction in Health Care: A Systems Approach to Improving Patient Safety by
Patrice
L. Spath, 2000 John Wiley and Sons Ltd ISBN: 155648271X
Heart
Failure
The Diary of a Third Year Medical Student
" To all the students who went to bed crying or woke up screaming.
To all those who needed to leave their hearts at the door. "
Publisher: Michael Greger, MD; ISBN: 0967828805; (April 1, 2000)
E-mail: webmaster@upalumni.org
http://upalumni.org/medschool
Medical
Harm : Historical, Conceptual, and Ethical Dimensions of Iatrogenic Illness
by
Virginia
A. Sharpe, Alan
I. Faden
Cambridge University Press; ISBN: 0521634903; (February 13, 1998)
National
Patient Safety Foundation
Patient Safety Publications, Conference Tapes and Syllabus Order Form
www.npsf.org/forms/orderform.html
To Err Is Human:
Building a Safer Health System
by Linda
T. Kohn (Editor), Janet
Corrigan (Editor), Donaldson,
William
C. Richardson (Preface), Molla
S. Donaldson (Editor) National Academy Press; ISBN: 0309068371; 1st edition (April 15, 2000)
