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Nursing/Medicine
Healthcare and Hospital Administration
- Agency
for Health Care Policy and Research-- access to the Clinical
Practice Guidelines, the Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, the
Medical Treatment Effectiveness Program, Outcomes Research, and the
Health Technology Assessment program.
- American
Accreditation Health Care Commission--sets standards of care
for managed health care. In Iowa, compliance with these standards is
mandatory.
- American
Association of Health Plans--info on policy, communications,
regulation, training, women's health
- American
Hospital Association
- American
Hospital Directory--look up hospitals and find their general
characteristics, services, financial information, utilization
statistics
- American
Public Health Association
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America's
Top Hospitals--from US News and World Report.
- Catholic
Health Association of the United States--deals with public
policy, long term care, and other issues, and provides daily news and
related links.
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Center
for Medicare and Medicaid Services-- the resource for Medicare,
Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance initiative. Used to be
called the Health Care Financing Administration.
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Disabilities,
Aging and Long Term Care Issues--from the Dept. of Health and Human
Services.
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Health
Facilities Management -- a journal
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Hospitals and
Health Networks -- a journal
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Joint
Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
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Materials
Management in Health Care--a monthly trade publication.
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National Hospice
and Palliative Care --Information on services and guides for patients,
caregivers and on bereavement.
- Patient Safety Network --
"continuously
updated, annotated, and carefully selected collection of patient safety
news, literature, tools, and resources. "
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