Health and Medical Guide to Health System Choosing a Doctor or Health Care Service Health information topics about Choosing a Doctor or Health Care Service: Children 1. Finding a Therapist for Your Child's Emotiona Nemours Foundation http://kidshealth.org/parent/emotions/feelings/finding_therapist.html 2. Finding a Doctor for Your Child Nemours Foundation http://kidshealth.org/parent/system/doctor/find_ped.html Clinical Trials 1. ClinicalTrials.gov: Physician-Patient Relations National Institutes of Health http://clinicaltrials.gov/search/condition=physician+patient+relations&recr... Directories 1. Eldercare Locator: Community Assistance for Senio Administration on Aging http://www.eldercare.gov/ Law and Policy 1. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ( Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services http://www.cms.hhs.gov/media/press/release.asp?Counter=985 Organizations 1. National Institute on Aging http://www.nia.nih.gov/ 2. Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Or http://www.jcaho.org Overviews 1. Helping You Choose the Hospital for You Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations http://www.jcaho.org/general+public/making+better+choices/helping+you+choos... 2. Your Guide to Choosing Quality Health Care Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality http://www.ahrq.gov/consumer/qualguid.pdf Related Issues 1. Home Care Service: What Is It and How Do You Find Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=HO00084 2. How to Find a Physician National Center for Infectious Diseases, Division of Parasitic Diseases http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/public/geninfo_find_physician.htm 3. How to Select a Care Provider National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization http://www.nhpco.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3282 4. Issues to Consider When Choosing a Brain Tumor Tre National Brain Tumor Foundation http://www.braintumor.org/pservices/pdfarchive/FactSheet-TreatmentCenter.pd... 5. It's Your Choice American College of Surgeons http://www.facs.org/public_info/patient_choice/ychoice.html 6. Know Your Anesthesiologist American Society of Anesthesiologists http://www.asahq.org/patientEducation/know.htm 7. Looking for a Qualified Surgeon American College of Surgeons http://www.facs.org/public_info/yourhealth/findadoc.html 8. Selecting a Complementary and Alternative Medicine National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine http://nccam.nih.gov/health/practitioner/index.htm 9. Selecting a Hospital United Network for Organ Sharing http://www.transplantliving.org/beforethetransplant/hospital/hospital.aspx 10. Selecting a Refractive Eye Surgeon LASIK Institute http://www.lasikinstitute.org/Selecting_Surgeon.html 11. Selecting an ART Program American Society for Reproductive Medicine http://www.asrm.org/Patients/select.html 12. Helping You Identify Quality Laboratory Services Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations http://www.jcaho.org/general+public/making+better+choices/helping+you+choos... 13. Helping You Choose Quality Home Care and Hospice S Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations http://www.jcaho.org/general+public/making+better+choices/helping+you+choos... 14. Choosing a Mental Health Provider: How to Find One Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=MH00008 15. Choosing a Psychiatrist American Psychiatric Association http://www.psych.org/public_info/choosing_psych/index.cfm 16. Choosing a Doctor: A Guide for People with Medica Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services http://www.medicare.gov/Publications/Pubs/pdf/10180.pdf 17. Choosing a Treatment Facility Leukemia & Lymphoma Society http://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org/all_mat_toc.adp?item_id=9877 18. Choosing a Cleft Palate or Craniofacial Team Cleft Palate Foundation http://www.cleftline.org/publications/choosingteam.htm 19. Choosing an HIV Care Provider New Mexico AIDS Education and Training Center http://www.aidsinfonet.org/articles.php?articleID=202&newLang=en 20. Choosing and Communicating with a Cancer Specialis Leukemia & Lymphoma Society http://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org/all_mat_toc.adp?item_id=9872 21. Choosing Long-Term Care: A Guide for Patients with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services http://www.medicare.gov/publications/pubs/pdf/choosingltc.pdf 22. Choosing Treatments Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services http://www.medicare.gov/Publications/Pubs/pdf/10182.pdf 23. Considerations for Choosing a Bone Marrow Transpla Health Resources and Services Administration http://www.hrsa.gov/osp/dot/choosebmt.htm 24. Helping You Choose Quality Behavioral Health Care Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations http://www.jcaho.org/general+public/making+better+choices/helping+you+choos... 25. Helping You Choose Quality Ambulatory Care Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations http://www.jcaho.org/general+public/making+better+choices/helping+you+choos... 26. Guide to Selecting and Monitoring Brain Injury Reh Brain Injury Association of America http://www.biausa.org/Pages/guide_to_selecting.html 27. Guide to Choosing a Nursing Home Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services http://www.medicare.gov/publications/pubs/pdf/02174.pdf 28. Find a Plastic Surgeon: Make the Right Choice American Society of Plastic Surgeons http://www.plasticsurgery.org/find_a_plastic_surgeon/making-an-informed-dec... 29. Criteria for Selecting a High-Tech Infertility Cli International Council on Infertility Information Dissemination http://www.inciid.org/article.php?cat=treatment&id=302 30. Considering Long Term Care for Your Parents: Allow Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=HA00054 31. Choosing a Hospital: A Guide for People with Medic Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services http://www.medicare.gov/Publications/Pubs/pdf/hospital.pdf Research 1. Is an Older, More Experienced Doctor a Better Doct American College of Physicians http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/142/4/I-54 2. New Study Suggests that Death Rates for Some Cardi Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality http://www.ahrq.gov/news/press/pr2003/surgvolpr.htm 3. New Study Shows Critical Role for Primary Care Spe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/fs040826.htm 4. Are There Enough Primary Care Physicians Available American Academy of Family Physicians http://www.aafp.org/x27022.xml Seniors 1. Choosing a Doctor National Institute on Aging http://www.niapublications.org/engagepages/choose.asp 2. Finding a New Doctor: A Guide for Older Adults Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=HA00058 3. Long-Term Care: Choosing the Right Place National Institute on Aging http://www.niapublications.org/engagepages/longterm.asp Women 1. Choosing Your Health Care Provider for Pregnancy Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=HO00111   Recommended Resources: [CaRP] Can't open cache file. [CaRP] Unable to create/open RSS cache file. [CaRP] Failed to open file: /home/medicalc/public_html/carp/autocache/c62b9f08975a3ce69acf5001c1be6fc0 [CaRP] Can't open remote newsfeed.