100152: Your Guide to Choosing Quality Health Care

About the Course:

This guide is intended to help people find and utilize important, reliable information regarding health care. It includes information on making choices and taking a proactive role in one’s health care. A valuable resource for clinicians and their clientele.

Author

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

About the Authors:

This guide was developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR), in cooperation with other agencies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and other public- and private-sector health organizations. AHRQ is the lead Federal agency charged with sponsoring and conducting research on the quality and outcomes of health care services, as well as the cost, use, and access to those services.

Course Objectives:

1. To help clients learn how to make appropriate choices regarding several aspects of health care

2. To augment knowledge of information relevant to finding information regarding quality of care issues

3. To provide check lists and other forms to use when making decisions regarding health care issues