American Pain Foundation

Founded in 1997, the American Pain Foundation (APF) is an independent nonprofit 501(c)3 organization that serves people affected by pain. APF speaks out for people living with pain, caregivers, health care providers and allied organizations, working...

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Barbara L. Blaylock, M.D. Health Care Advocate

Serving clients and families in Montgomery County, Maryland and Northwest Washington, D.C. Would you like more time to talk with your doctor? Are you feeling overwhelmed by illness or loss? Do you feel discouraged trying to navigate the...

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Coalition for Patients’ Rights

My name is Michael Bennett. In 2004, my blessed father died as a result of medical negligence and at least seven different strains of hospital-acquired bacteria. When my father passed on, I made a commitment to do everything in my power to...

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Collateral Damage (Adventures in Cardiology)

Collateral Damage -- A Patient, a New Procedure, and the Learning Curve. A book by Dan Walter. This is the story of what happened to my wife, Pam, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in March of 2002. I write this story for Pam because she endured so...

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Consumers United for Evidence-based Healthcare (CUE)

Consumers United for Evidence-based Healthcare (CUE) is a national coalition of health and consumer advocacy organizations committed to empowering consumers to make the best use of evidence-based healthcare (EBHC). CUE, organized in 2003 when the...

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DailyMed

DailyMed provides high quality information about marketed drugs. This information includes FDA labels (package inserts). This Web site provides health information providers and the public with a standard, comprehensive, up-to-date, look-up and...

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FoodRisk.org

The aim of FoodRisk.org is to assist professionals involved with the many aspects of risk analysis as it pertains to the safety of our food. Thus, we provide data, tutorials, tools, and links to numerous sources of information. In addition to...

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Health Indicators Warehouse

Access to high quality data improves understanding of a community’s health status and determinants, and facilitates the prioritization of interventions. The purpose of the HIW is to: Provide a single, user-friendly, source for national, state,...

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Healthcare Communities

HealthcareCommunities.org (HC) is a web-based knowledge management system that provides multiple means for the healthcare quality improvement community to share knowledge and contribute to each others’ QI work. Major Features Resource...

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Informed Patient Institute

The Informed Patient Institute (IPI) is an independent nonprofit organization that provides credible online information about health care quality and patient safety for consumers. IPI rates the usefulness of online health care report...

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