title: Health care choices: sharing the quality message.
abstract: Information on health-care quality (in the form of report cards) is playing an increasingly important role in consumers' health-care decision making. In this brief we discuss how you can help your clients sort through available quality information and how you can prepare a report card using the approach developed by the Foundation for Accountability (FACCT), our guest authors this month.
mesh_terms: D003256:Community Participation; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D006278:Medicare; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States