Resources

We have compiled a list of resources that you may find helpful.

Health and Public Policy Research Links

Legislative Links

Transparency of Medical Information: Price and Performance Comparison Sites

• CompareHealth
: Allows user to shop around for various health care plans
• Hospital Compare
: Provides information about how well Medicare-certified hospitals across the country perform with adult patients
• HealthGrades
: Allows user to retrieve a health grade on many physicians, hopsitals, and nursing homes
• QuackWatch
: Provides information on various controversial medical issues, and includes links to many subtopics
• Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project
: A report on efforts to collect state medical reporting information in order to improve health care quality
• Minnesota Health Information
: Minnesota State's disclosure report on its state hospitals
• Voice4Patients
: Lists health care error reports and publications
• Washington State hospital procedure prices
: Shows the 1999 prices for various procedures at hospitals throughout Washington
• patientINFORM
: Translates into lay terms many published medical studies related to diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. See in-depth article in Wall Street Journal, Laura Landro's column The Informed Patient, "New Help Making Sense of Medical Research", June 15, 2005, p. D1

University of Washington Links

If you have suggestions for other useful health policy links, please email us at rchpol@u.washington.edu.

We have provided the above links as ideas for possible sources of health policy information. The Resource Center does not necessarily endorse the information and opinions contained therein.