| Your
Questions
- How
much do I need to know to really manage my own health
care in partnership with my doctor?
- Where
do I get the information I need?
- How
do I know the information I'm getting is information I
can trust?
- How
can I best make decisions about various health care choices,
based on my own needs, values and preferences?
Our
Solution
Increasingly,
health care will rely to a much greater extent on more participation
by all of us in the decision-making about various health
care choices.
Furthermore,
we will need the best available information for participating
in managing our own care.
Finally,
many of us will play a larger role in sharing the costs
generated by our choices.
We
are trying to be part of the solution in health care by
training others in how to use scientific evidence to find
out the best care for people. We also design educational
programs that are focused on patient-centered care —
decision-making, information and decision-aids, helping
manage treatment, as examples.
We
are committed to consumers and patients being at the heart
of health care.
- Read
about evidence-based medicine here »
- Online
resources for consumers »
Tips
designed to help you understand and apply some concepts
from “evidence-based medicine” (EBM) to assist
you to better evaluate health care information and make
choices for your care.
- Consumer
Tips To Aid in Evaluating Health Care Quality
[WORD
Doc]
Is
your health care system positioned to practice an evidence-
and value-based approach? We have an evaluation tool.
- Health
Care Quality Systems Assessment Tool
[PDF]
and online tool [WORD
Doc]
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