Communicating information about “what not to do” to consumers

Communicating information about “what not to do” to consumers

BACKGROUND Americans devote more resources to health care than any other developed country, and yet they have worse health outcomes and less access. This creates a perfect set of opportunities for Consumer Reports, a nonprofit consumer advocacy and multimedia organization known for its focus on individual consumers in markets where significant amounts of misinformation is in play. Consumer Repo...

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet

Molecular approaches to diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis what we know and what we do not know.

Invasive aspergillosis (IA) are a major complication in immunocompromized patients where can be serious and rapidly fatal. Early diagnosis and early appropriate antifungal treatment is important in reducing mortality and morbidity. But despite many efforts to develop detection methods, the diagnosis of IA still remains challenging and current conventional methods are limited for adequate diagno...

What information do consumers want and need?

This paper reviews information from surveys and focus group studies about how consumers define high-quality care and the types of information they want when making decisions about which health plan to join. The authors also interviewed consumer advocacy groups and persons responsible for disseminating health plan information to Medicare enrollees in various types of managed care plans to learn ...

What To Do About Vitamins

book must have been produced under great pressure, errors in the text are conspicuously few (e.g., the listing of the Toxoplasmideae under the Fungi). Everything considered, this is an excellent book for anyone wishing to take stock of the present status of penicillin therapy. "If you are a typical Amencan," says Dr. Williams, author of this little book for the lay reader, "you are interested i...