Unraveling U.S. health care a personal guide
More than ever, patients must act as consumers of health care, balancing informed decisions with available resources. Winter provides a timely and thorough explanation of U.S. health care, written in readable laymen's terms. Useful tips, explanatory charts, and statewide scorecards are included...
| Main Author: | Winter, Roberta E. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield,
c2013.
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Table of Contents:
- The truth about U.S. health care
- Why U.S. health care is so expensive
- Evidence-based planning : what it means and why you should care
- Quality and cost: how the United States compares with other countries
- Quality indicators: best hospitals for patient safety
- Critical care: U.S. hospitals with level-1 trauma centers
- Patient safety: who reports hospital errors
- Surgical tips: when you have to go under the knife
- How to get medical treatment in the United States without health insurance
- Medical tourism: getting health care outside the United States
- Health care for visitors to the United States
- Naturopathic and alternative health care in America: who regulates it
- Health care reforms: a consumer perspective
- When it's terminal: how to die well
- What you need to know before your medicare election
- Insurance 101
- Women's health care: the best and the worst in the United States
- Men's health care: the best and the worst in the United States
- Children's health care: the best and worst in the United States
- Strategies for reducing the cost of health care in the United States.