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Informing Consumers About Health Care
Quality: New Directions for Research and Action
Work Group on Consumer Health Information This interdisciplinary group of consumer advocates, purchasers, researchers, and government officials convened as a result of a 1998 national conference, Making Quality Count: Helping Consumers Make Better Health Care Choices. The Work Group on Consumer Health Information aims to assist public and private efforts to communicate health care quality information to consumers. The Work Group developed the Talking Quality Web site and the Research and Action Agenda. Click here to view the Proposed Research and Action Agenda. Commissioned Papers
Conference Sponsors This conference is sponsored by the Work Group on Consumer Health Information, through support from the California HealthCare Foundation, AHRQ, CDC, HCFA, and the U.S. OPM. The Federal agencies are part of the Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force (QuIC), a collaboration to foster quality improvement in Federal health care programs. The mission of the California HealthCare Foundation, established in 1996, is to expand access to affordable quality health care services for underserved individuals and communities, and to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of the people of California. The conference is facilitated by the Quality Measurement Advisory Service (QMAS) and Westat, Inc. |