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To be able to more easily compare products and services available in public and private health, patient must be better informed. Greater transparency and knowledge ensures patient a position of force.
Thanks to the Internet, the power can change camp again and pass by again of the service of health provider (hospital administration, insurance, HMO, general practicioner...) to the patient. Following links can be useful for you, for your health and your close relations. You recall, knowledge is an excellent therapeutic additive and a very good safeguard against health insurances and hospitals abuses and against possible physicians excesses.
The overall balance in the doctor/patient relationship, is maintened by the fact that the doctor is the one who is qualified in assessing the quality and, more importantly, the relevance of any medical information. No book or internet site can replace a consultation with a good physician, but it will help you go in there as an equal and get the most out of your meeting. This may mean you have to think more about the choices offered to you and deal with more uncertainty, but there is clear evidence that the patients who are informed and involved in decisions about their health do better.
Search engines
www.northernlight.com/search.html
Medical an health directories
http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd
http://search.intelihealth.com
Data banks
Cochrane Data Base of Systematic Reviews
www.chu-rouen.fr/documed/pme.html
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
Topic data banks
Complementary and alternative Medicine Citation Index (CCI)
Medlineplus Alternative Medicine Section
NY Online Access to Health Alternative Medicine Section
National Childbirth Trust (NCT)
Digestive Disorders Foundation
Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America
www.docteur.ch/info/index.html
www.drogues.gouv.fr/fr/savoir_plus/savoir_plus_base_biblio.html
Medical journals and books
www.acponline.org/journals/journals.htm
Complementary Medicine: information for primary Care Phasicians
Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Resources (freely available, full-text journals)
The Patient's Internet Handbook
Health institutions
www.medlit.net/guests/cumulative.htm
http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov/pubs/hp2000/
www.bsv.admin.ch/aktuell/highlight/f/index.htm
Virtual medical consultations
Cyberdocs online medical consultations
Virtual Hospital: asthma education
BVF:conditions explained (varicose veins)
www.allgemeinpraxis.ch/info.htm
Legal
www.medical-malpractice-attorney-source.com
www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/hospital/english.htm
Drug information on the internet
Research shows that 50% of patients fail to comply with the medication they are prescribed.The reasons for this are many, but a common recommendation for increasing compliance is to provide patients with more information about the drugs that are being prescribed. In the following websites, patients can find information on virtually all prescription drugs.
Electronic Medicine Compendium /eMC)
US Pharmacopeia-advice for the patient (USP)
British National Formulary (BNF)
www.georgetown.edu/departments/pharmacology/
Travel medicine
PatientProtect.com has no business connection to any of the organizations or persons listed above. PatientProtect.com does not necessarily endorse their opinions or activities. These websites are listed or linked to for information purpose only.
Bibliographical references
Alliance for aging research. When medicine hurts instead of helps. Washington, DC: The Alliance for aging research; 1998
Andrew, L.B.et al. An alternative strategy for studying adverses events in medical care. Lancet. 349: 309-313, 1997
Bates, D.W. et al: Relationship between medication errors and adverse drugs events. J Gen Intern Med. 10: 199-205, 1995
Bogner M. S. et al. Human error in medicine. Lawrence Erlbaum Ass. 1994
Bootman, J. L. The health care cost of drug-related morbidity and mortality in nursing facilities. Arch Intern Med. 157: 2089-2096, 1997
Brennan, A. et al. Incidence of adverse events and negligence in hospitalized patients: results of the Harward Medical Practice Study. N Engl J Med. 324: 370-376, 1991
Brook, R.H. et al. Appropriateness of health care for the elderly: an analysis of the litterature. Health policy 14: 225, 1990
Dubois, R. W. et al. Preventable deaths: who, how often, and why? Ann Intern Med.109: 582, 1988
Gawande, A. A. et al. The incidence and nature of surgical adverse events in Colorado and Utah in 1992. Surgery. 126: 66, 1999
Hallas, J. et al. Drug related admissions to a cardiology departement: frequency and avoidability. J Intern Med. 228: 379-384, 1990
Hospital Infection Program. 1999. www.cdc.gov/ncidod/publications/brochures/hip.htm.
Kiley R. and Graham E. The Patient's Internet Handbook. RSM Press. London. 2002
Merry,A. et al. Errors, medicine and the law. Cambridge Univ. Press. 2002
Rosenthal M. M. et al. Medical error: what do we know? What do we do? John Wiley and sons. 2002
Schwander, D. La gestion du risque en anesthésiologie. Bulletin des médecins suisses. 69: 483-491, 1988
Spath P. L. et al. Error reduction in health care: a systems approach to improving patient safety. John Wiley and sons. 2000
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Thomas,E.J. et al. Incidence and types of adverse events and negligent care in Utah and Colorado. Med Care. sous presse, 2000
Knox, R. Prescription errors tied to lack of advice: pharmacists skirting with the llaw, Massachussetts Study Finds. Boston Globe. February 10, 1999:(Metro); B1.
Koren, G. et al. Pediatric medication errors: predicting and preventing tenfold disasters. J Clin Pharmacol. 34: 1043-1045, 1994
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McGuire, H. H. et al. Measuring and managing quality of surgery: statistical vs incidental approaches. Arch Surg. 127: 733-737, 1992
National Patient Safety Foundation. Diverse groups come together to improve health care safety through the National Patient Safety Foundation. Web Page. 1997. www.ama-assn.org/med-sci/npsf/pr897.htm.
National Wholesale Druggists' Association. Industry profile and healthcare factbook. Reston, VA: 1998
Perlstein, P. H. et al. Errors in drug computations during newborn intensive care. Am J Dis Children. 33: 376-379, 1979
Perrow, C. Normal accidents. New York. Basic Books, 1984
Phillips, D. P. et al, Increase in US medication-error deaths between 1983 and 1993. Lancer. 351: 643-644, 1988
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Updating: february 2003