HOSPITAL STAY HANDBOOK: Resources

AARP Great overall resource Specific section on medical errors	AARP 601 E. Street NW Washington, DC 20049 Telephone: (888) OUR-AARP, (888) 687-2277 http://research.aarp.org/health/ib35_medical_1.html
Agency For Healthcare Research And Quality Part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors	Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Office of Communications and Knowledge Transfer 540 Gaither Road Suite 2000 Rockville, MD 20850 Telephone: (301) 427-1364 http://www.ahrq.gov/consumer/20tips.htm
Axiom Action LLC Notes from the Waiting Room: Managing a Loved One's End-of-Life Hospitalization (Includes: Choosing End-of-Life Care Without Hospitalization) by Bart Windrum How to Efficiently Settle the Family Estate by Bart Windrum	Bart Windrum Axiom Action LLC Bart@AxiomAction.com Telephone: (303) 499-8120 http://www.AxiomAction.com
The Independent Production Fund Producers of “Whose Death Is It Anyway?” This Public Television Program emphasizes the importance of personal involvement in decisions about one's care at the end of life. Highlighting the types of treatment many people receive, it realistically explores the difficulties surrounding end-of-life decision making through five documentary segments that feature families sharing their own discussions and experiences.	The Independent Production Fund 45 West 45th Street Suite 808 New York, NY 10036 Telephone: (800) 727-2470 http://www.whosedeathisitanyway.com/
National Patient Safety Foundation Non-profit organization Indispensable resource for individuals and organizations committed to improving the safety of patients	National Patient Safety Foundation 1120 MASS MoCA Way North Adams, MA, 01247 Telephone: (413) 663-8900 Fax: (413) 663-8905 http://www.npsf.org
Patients Are Powerful Non-profit organization Provides the reasons, steps and forms to empower patients	Patients are Powerful P.O. Box 345 Penryn, CA 95663 Telephone: (916) 652-2293 Fax: (916) 652-3427 http://www.patientsarepowerful.org/
Social Security Disability Coalition informational site as well as acting as a support group supported by professionals in the social services field and disabled Americans who have experienced the frustrations of the SSDI application process offers information and support with a focus on reforming the Social Security Disability System collects information related to the protocols used by the Social Security Disability Insurance program and searches for systematic patterns and/or arbitrary actions that cause the disabled undue stress and economic hardship seeks critical mass, affecting policy and protocol change on-profit organization	Social Security Disability Coalition Linda Fullerton - President/Co-Founder Stephanie L. Varnado - Co-Founder/Webmaster ssdcoalition@hotmail.com http://groups.msn.com/SocialSecurityDisabilityCoalition
Today’s Caregiver Magazine Developed for caregivers, about caregivers and by caregivers Includes free online newsletter	Caregiver Media Group Today’s Caregiver Magazine 3005 Greene Street Hollywood, FL 33020 Telephone: (800) 829-2734 Fax: (954) 893-1779 http://www.caregiver.com
Wrongdiagnosis.COM Founded by patients not doctors Not an officially medically-qualified company. All material is written with the health consumer as the target. Reports are written in everyday English rather than medical jargon An advertising sponsored site (but worth the annoyance) A great resource listing of possible Causes of Medical Mistakes Also has a good dictionary	http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/mistakes/causes.htm

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