Resources:

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 group of leading employer, consumer, and labor organizations working to ensure access to publicly reported health care performance information
• 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

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