Asking questions

• Create a list of questions for your provider (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services)
• Choosing a Hospital: Safety Checklist & Questions to Ask (WebMD)

Preventing Wrong Site Surgery

• Safety in the Operating Room (Minnesota Hospital Association)
• Adverse Health Events Factsheet: Retained Objects
• Adverse Health Events Factsheet: Wrong-Site Surgery

Preventing Pressure Ulcers

• Adverse Health Events Factsheet: Pressure Ulcers

Quality and Safety Data

• KHA AHRQ Inpatient Quality Indicator Reports by Hospital - Quality Information for hospitals in Kentucky
• CMS Hospital Compare Data - Clinical performance and patient satisfaction information
• AHRQ Health Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)
• Quality Check (Joint Commission)

Navigating the Health Care System

• Advice from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• Healthcare.gov - Take health care into your own hands
• Insurance - Guide to finding health insurance in Kentucky
• Kentucky Hospitals
• Medicare Interactive - Your one-stop source for information about health care rights, options and benefits
• Partnership for Patients - a public-private partnership working to improve the quality, safety and affordability
  of health care for all Americans.
• The Patient Care Partnership - What you should expect during your hospital stay with regard to your rights
  and responsibilities from the American Hospital Association