Sites that have interesting or useful information about medical error, ethics, practices, economics, and things worth knowing. The American Iatrogenic Association does not necessarily endorse the information or opinions on linked sites. American Iatrogenic Association Yahoo! Group (Hundreds of news stories and other informative articles.) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality American Enterprise Institute Americans for Freedom of Choice in Medicine Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Association of American Physicians and Surgeons Susan Callaway, R.N The Cato Institute Citizens's Council on Health Care Consumers Against High Drug Prices Consumer's Checkbook Hospital Guide (pay site rates 4500 hospitals) Consumer's Checkbook Top Doctors (pay site rates docs) DoctorQuality (consumers can rate doctors and hospitals) Drug Policy Alliance FDAReview (Cost-benefit analysis of agency policies) Federation of State Medical Boards The Foundation for Economic Education Fraser Institute (Canadian healthcare) Harvard Risk Management Foundation HealthGrades (ratings of hospitals, physicians, etc.) HealthScope (rates hospitals, med groups, health plans in California) The Independent Institute Institute for Healthcare Improvement Institute for Health Freedom Institute for Safe Medication Practices International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Irene Randall's Chronic Pain Journal of Hospital Infection The Leapfrog Group for Patient Safety The Ludwig von Mises Institute Malpracticeweb.com (summaries of med lawsuits in Cook Co., IL) Marketmed.org (free market medical analysis, solutions) Medical error and adverse events bibliography (Fl Assoc for Healthcare Quality) Medical Error Reduction.com Medical Errors Reporting Program Medical Misadventures Resource Center Medication Errors (FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research) MEDLINE Plus Health Information MedMined (Infection control) myHealthFinder.com (Hospital, health plan ratings) National Center for Patient Safety National Coalition on Health Care National Consumer Coalition (medical privacy) National Patient Safety Foundation National Quality Forum NoFreeLunch (drug companies and physicians) Patient Safety Act of 2001 (U.S. Senate) Congressman Ron Paul, M.D. (medical privacy) President's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry Quaity and Safety in Health Care Reuters Health Drug Database Therapeutics Initiative Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development WorstDoctor.com (consumer ratings) The Leapfrog Group Hospital Patient Safety Survey "Leapfrog purchasers (hospitals) will use the survey responses to (1) educate and inform enrollees about patient safety and the importance of comparing provider performance on Leapfrog's three safety standards and (2) recognize and reward providers that meet the standards. This means that purchasers will share the survey responses with their employees. It also means that purchasers will use the survey results in their contracting discussions with plans and providers. In addition, The Leapfrog Group will eventually share all hospital responses with the public. For those hospitals that choose not to respond to the survey, the survey results will read: 'This hospital has declined to share this information with consumers.'" Direct-to-consumer medical tests AiA supports the right of consumers to obtain medical tests without physician authorization. We consider this a fundamental right, along with the right to self-medicate. The following companies provide direct-to-consumer lab tests. We are hoping that the menu of tests offered will significantly expand. The testing provides more confidentiality than is offered through physicians: results are not automatically placed in one's medical record. The tests are also much cheaper than those provided through physicians and hospitals. Testing is not available in some states, however, because politicians in those states do not allow consumers to have access to their own test results. That, we believe, is a disgrace. Because physicians lose money when they are not the gatekeepers to lab tests, look for backlash and efforts to restrict direct-to-consumer testing. Physicians are a powerful lobby. Quest Diagnostics HealthcheckUSA Direct Laboratory Services (offers the widest selection of tests) HealthcheckUSA has a link to media articles and commentary on direct-to-consumer testing. Clinical Laboratory Strategies also has an interesting article (pdf). Psychiatrogenics A few thoughts on electroconvulsive therapy (neurologist John M. Friedberg) Antipsychiatry Coalition Benzo.org.UK (benzodiazepine drugs) Citizens Commission on Human Rights ECT.org (electroconvulsive therapy) Jeffrey A. 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