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Guidance for sponsors of consumer reports on health care quality

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Linking to the TalkingQuality Web Site

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) welcomes links to the TalkingQuality Web site at https://www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov. Please use the text and/or the sample links below.

AHRQ prefers that you link directly to the TalkingQuality Home Page. If you want to link to specific items within the Web site rather than the Home Page, please notify us and provide the relevant URLs by e-mail: talkingquality@ahrq.gov

All external links from commercial sites to this Federal Government site should be clearly identified as non-Federal and not endorsed by AHRQ. AHRQ cannot endorse, or appear to endorse, commercial services or products. Links should not be displayed in any manner that would imply such an endorsement.

Please send any questions in an e-mail to talkingquality@ahrq.gov.

Text Describing TalkingQuality

The TalkingQuality site is a comprehensive resource and guide for organizations that produce and distribute health care report cards, i.e., consumer reports on the comparative quality of health care organizations.

Sample Links

You can use the images and text shown below in coding your HTML links to the TalkingQuality site. Select the plain text or graphic link, and paste the block of HTML code underneath it right into your page.

AHRQ requests that Webmasters establishing a link to the TalkingQuality Web site send an e-mail providing the name of the Web site and relevant URLs to talkingquality@ahrq.gov.

Text Link

TalkingQuality
<a href="http://www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/" title="Link to AHRQ’s TalkingQuality Web site">AHRQ’s TalkingQuality Web site</a>

Graphic Link

AHRQ’s TalkingQuality Web site

<a href="http://www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/"><img style="border:0;" src="http://www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/images/TQheader.jpg" alt="AHRQ’s TalkingQuality Web site" title="AHRQ’s TalkingQuality Web site" /></a>

Key Words

The following key words characterize the offerings on our Web site:
comparative quality information
consumer health information
consumer reporting
health care information
health care decisionmaking
health care quality
health plan quality
hospital quality
medical group quality
performance reports
physician quality
public reporting
quality information
quality measurement
quality report cards
quality reports/reporting
report cards

Contact for Additional Information

Randie Siegel, M.S.
Associate Director
Publishing and Electronic Dissemination
Office of Communications and Knowledge Transfer
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
540 Gaither Road, Suite 2000
Rockville, MD 20850
Phone: (301) 427-1852
Fax: (301) 427-1873
E-mail: randie.siegel@ahrq.hhs.gov