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Communication Toolkit: Using Information to Get High Quality Care


Description

This toolkit helps employers, labor unions, and others frame and deliver messages to employees about the meaning and importance of getting evidence-based health care. The toolkit takes the concepts of making health care decisions on evidence and translates them into language that employees can understand. It contains resources for the employer, including background on how to communicate more effectively with employees as well as a collection of materials for them to download and adapt for use with their own workforce.
Links to the Tool:
This tool is available at: http://www.helpyouremployeeshealth.com/

Developer

American Institutes for Research; National Business Group on Health

Funding Sources

California Healthcare Foundation


QualityTool Topic

other; Quality improvement strategies


History

  • Release Date: 09/2008
  • Original Summary: 09/2008
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QualityTool Classification

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IOM Domains of Quality:
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Last updated: December 19, 2012.