Consumers & Patients
Health Conditions/Diseases
Next Steps After Your Diagnosis: Finding Information and Support
Watch Video
Common Uterine Conditions: Options for
Treatment
Flu Information
Pneumonia: More Patients May Be Treated
at Home
Surgery Choices for Early-Stage Breast
Cancer
Understanding Your Body
Consumer Summary Guides—Effective Health Care
The Effective Health Care Program is dedicated to fulfilling the need for reliable and practical data to inform decisions about health care. It does that through high-quality research and by developing information for decisionmakers, including consumers.
Depression
Antidepressant Medicines—A Guide for Adults With Depression (PDF File, 230 KB)
Diabetes
Pills for Type 2 Diabetes: A Guide for Adults (PDF File 600 KB)
GERD
Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) (PDF File, 85 KB) (En Español)
High Blood Pressure
Comparing Two Kinds of Blood Pressure Pills: ACEIs and ARBs (PDF File, 150 KB)
Osteoarthritis
Choosing Pain Medicine For Osteoarthritis (PDF File, 600 KB) (En Español)
Renal Artery Stenosis
Renal Artery Stenosis Treatments (PDF File, 580 KB)
Consumer Versions of Clinical
Practice Guidelines
Between 1992 and 1996, the Agency for Health Care Policy and
Research (now the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
sponsored development of a series of 19 clinical practice guidelines.
Electronic versions of the consumer guidelines listed are
available
online at the National Library of Medicine. You may download
or print these patient guides in sections using your Web browser
for personal use only. Requests to further reproduce these
documents in print or electronic form should be sent to info@ahrq.gov.
Cardiac Rehabilitation
Recovering
from Heart Problems through Cardiac Rehabilitation
Pressure Sores
Preventing
Pressure Ulcers
Treating
Pressure Sores
Other topics in this series are now outdated. However, electronic
versions are available for historical and informational purposes
in the Clinical Practice Guideline
Archive.
Health Plans
Insure Kids Now: Low-Cost
or Free Health Coverage
Questions and Answers About Health Insurance: A Consumer Guide
Prescriptions
Check Your Medicines: Tips for Using Medicines Safely—Updated
Poster, Video
Quick Tips—When Getting
a Prescription
Women and Medicines: What You Need to Know
Your Guide to Coumadin®/Warfarin Therapy—Updated
Your Medicine: Play
It Safe
Prevention & Wellness
Aspirin: Preventing Heart Attacks
Men: Stay Healthy at Any Age—Checklist
for Your Next Checkup
Pocket Guide to Good Health for Adults
Pocket Guide to Good Health for
Children
Pocket Guide to Staying Healthy
at 50+
Real Men Wear Gowns—New
Stroke Prevention: What You Should Know—Updated
Women: Stay Healthy at Any Age—Checklist
for Your Next Checkup
Quality of Care
AHRQ Podcast on Health Care Quality
Five Steps to Safer Health Care
20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors
20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors
in Children
Be Prepared for Medical Appointments
Communicating with Your Doctor [Video]
Getting Involved for Better Health Care: Audio Transcript of an Interview with Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D.—New
Guide to Health Care Quality: How to Know It When You See It
Health Care Value: What Are We Getting for What We Spend? [Video]
Improving Health Care Quality: A Guide for
Patients and Families
Personal Health Records [Video]
Questions Are the Answer
Poster, Card
Quick Tips—When Getting
Medical Tests
Quick Tips—When Talking
with Your Doctor
Your Guide to Choosing Quality Health Care:
Summary
Ways You Can Help Your Family Prevent
Medical Errors!
Quit Smoking
Treating Tobacco Use and
Dependence—Pathfinder page to resources
Help for Smokers and Other Tobacco Users
Quitting Helps You
Heal Faster, Hospital Card
Surgery
Having Surgery? What You Need
to Know
Quick Tips—When Planning
for Surgery
What You Need To Know About... Episiotomy
Información en español
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