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- Patient Safety First - Assists perioperative nurses, managers and practitioners in providing safe patient care. Offers resources related to patient safety in surgical settings, including lists of educational products and resources, articles, and links to national patient safety initiatives.
- Med Help International - The Virtual Medical Center for Patients - Med Help provides patient medical information via our virtual medical center. Site includes: the largest patient medical library on the Net, Ask-The-Doctor Forums, medical news, and patient networking.
- Mental Health Patient Rights - A weekly newsletter. Resources about managed care, patient rights, patient confidentiality, and parity for mental health care. A Practitioners' page, requires a subscription (free).
- JAMA's Patient Education Pages - The full text of patient education pages from the Journal of the American Medical Association.
- Patient Safety Center of Inquiry - Supports clinicians in providing safe patient care by designing and testing clinical innovations, technological solutions, and patient safety improvement systems. Research targets the frail elderly and persons with disabilities.
- Aviation Patient Safety - Provides resources to improve patient safety using lessons learned from the commercial airlines; site includes links and information on aviation based crew resource management procedures applied to hospital patient safety.
- The Patients Association - A national voluntary organisation run by an elected Council and independent of government and health service organisations. Advises, supports and campaigns for better services for patients.
- Washington State Medical Association: Patient Brochures - Patient brochures on a variety of health and social topics available online or free by mail to organizations and Washington state hospitals or clinics.
- Cardiology Associates: Patient Resources - Looks at what congestive heart failure is. Discusses outlook for patients, patient concerns, as well as symptoms, causes, diagnosing and treatment.
- Consumer Health Informatics and Patient Decisionmaking - The study looked at tools that include interactive computer discs, videotapes, audiotapes, brochures, and computer-generated fact sheets to help patients make decisions about medical screening and treatment. According to the study, most research has looked more at the effects of the tools on patient knowledge and satisfaction than on patient-clinician communications and health behavior and outcomes. Author: AHCPR Research Report. AHCPR Publication No. 98-N001, September 1997. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Rockville, MD.
Wikipedia Articles
- Patients Patients - Patients Patients is an episode of the MTV animated series Beavis and Butt-head. It was featured in the first volume of the DVD boxset Beavis and Butt-head: The Mike Judge Collection.
- Socialist Patients' Collective - The Socalist Patients' Collective (in German the Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv) also known as the SPK and the Patients' Front (in German Patientenfront), or PF, was a leftist German patients' group of the late 1960s/early 1970s fighting against medicine and doctors as enemies of the "patients' class", seeing capitalism as the reason for illness and trying to see "illness as a weapon" against capitalist society. ...
- Propofol - Propofol is a short-acting intravenous anesthetic agent used for the induction of general anesthesia in adult patients and pediatric patients older than 3 years of age; maintenance of general anesthesia in adult patients and pediatric patients older than 2 months of age; and sedation in medical contexts, such as intensive care unit (ICU) sedation for intubated, mechanically ventilated adults, and in procedures such as colonoscopy. It provides ...
- Pregnant patients' rights in the United States - Pregnant patients' rights regarding medical care during the pregnancy and childbirth are specifically a patient's rights within a medical setting and should not be confused with pregnancy discrimination. A great deal of discussion regarding pregnant patients' rights has taken place in the United States.
- U.S. Patients' Bill of Rights - A Patient's Bill of Rights is a statement of the rights to which patients deserve as recipients of medical care. Typically, a statement articulates the positive rights which doctors and hospitals ought to provide patients, thereby providing information, offering fair treatment, and granting them autonomy over medical decisions.