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Does anyone know of a website that helps compare healthcare outcomes. Specifically, I am interested in learning which hospitals or medical centers have the best outcomes for treatment of multiple myeloma. It seems like there should be some registry, website or service that would help this type of information.
This is probably proprietary info. You may not find it on a very public site. If you have a friend in the medical profession or one doing health research who has a paid subscription to AHA.org, you might be able to find consolidated hospital surveys available to members with paid subscriptions only. I often run into links during my research in pricing new products but I can't access them without a paid subscription.
Have you tried google?
It was how I came upon what I was telling you about.
I have googled extensively and thank you so much for the sites that you suggested. What I'm really looking for is some data about outcomes that could be compared from center to center. For example, "x% of our patients with Stage 1,2,3,4 multiple myeloma underwent stemcell transplantion. The six month survival rate was x%, the 1 year survival rate was x%, the five year survival rate was x%."
I'm in the healthcare field and I know that this type of data is kept, watched and monitored by health care facilities. Some disease entities, such as the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, have pushed for transparency so that this type of information is made readily available to the people who have the most at state - patients.
As healthcare consumers, we deserve transparency - We need to know who is best at providing the services that we or our loved ones need to survive.
Does anyone know of a website that helps compare healthcare outcomes. Specifically, I am interested in learning which hospitals or medical centers have the best outcomes for treatment of multiple myeloma. It seems like there should be some registry, website or service that would help this type of information.
No there isn't. Most people just run and do what their medical doctors tell them to do (which usually makes the most money for the medical establishment and helps the patients THE LEAST). So you deserve some credit to at least have thought to do research on hospitals with the best outcomes. However, you should do reaserch on the dangers of the treatments themselves. More people die from cancer treatments than from cancer.
As a long time health insurance agent I have done LOTS of research for clients for various things. If you want to check out hospitals there is www.ahd.com which stands for American Hospital Directory. I believe you have to pay if you want access to the entire website. Some of it is free though.
I would also visit Ralph Moss PhD's site www.ralphmoss.com. He is famous for his cancer treatment research and has researched every method there is and can tell you( or his books or reports will) which are really effective and which are just money makers for the medical establishment that leve the patients worse off. PBS has even done documentaries on him or featuring his research.
Here are some testimonials from people who have had Myeloma who used alternative IAT treatments instead Multiple Myeloma Cancer Alternative Treatment Testimonials (http://www.immunemedicine.com/multiple-myeloma-testimonials.asp - broken link)
Alternative Cancer Treatment Testimonials (http://www.immunemedicine.com/testimonials.asp - broken link)
Here's a cookbook author who 30 years ago or more cured her Leukiemia using a Macrobiotic Diet alone NO CONVENTIONAL TREATMENTS AND NO NATURAL MEDICINES. My Story (http://www.christinacooks.com/mystory.html - broken link)
Dirk Benedict who was in "Battlestar Galactica"
also cured his cancer the same way -- with nothing but food (Macrobiotics). He wrote a book about it called Confessions of a Kamikazee Cowboy
If I were you I'd at MINIMUM set up a full consultation with a Naturopathic Doctor with experience helping patients overcome cancer before you start your conventional treatments.
Mine has 30 years experience curing so-called "incurable" diseases which are just incurable by western medicine... and his practice takes phone appointments. They happen to have a radio show on Saturday mornings (tomorrow morning) from 8-10 EST called Holistic Health-line and the radio station is www.920whjj.com. It streams live on the computer so if you aren't in the Providence/Boston area, you can listen from your computer. After the show they encourage people to stop by an visit; ask questions or call. Their number is 508-336-4242 and they have a website at www.holistichealthline.com. Ask for Peter Morrell or Jane Jansen. They are both wonderful and fountains of knowledge.
Good luck!
P.S. There are also lots of videos on YouTube about Cancer Treatments. Jerry Brunetti is one who cured his Non Hodgkins Lymphoma with diet.
There are some with Gary Null PhD interviewing oncologists who use alternative methods juust for starters.
Op please read real source of information with real data and not lies. Chemo saves millions of people every year. Just use common sense if chemo is killing everybody you would see plenty of lawyers ads looking for victims.
I have googled extensively and thank you so much for the sites that you suggested. What I'm really looking for is some data about outcomes that could be compared from center to center. For example, "x% of our patients with Stage 1,2,3,4 multiple myeloma underwent stemcell transplantion. The six month survival rate was x%, the 1 year survival rate was x%, the five year survival rate was x%."
I'm in the healthcare field and I know that this type of data is kept, watched and monitored by health care facilities. Some disease entities, such as the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, have pushed for transparency so that this type of information is made readily available to the people who have the most at state - patients.
As healthcare consumers, we deserve transparency - We need to know who is best at providing the services that we or our loved ones need to survive.
I just looked in my favorites, do not see the one I am talking about. I've used so many computers in the last year, I haven't had time to get my stuff off of them and on to my main one. I must have saved it on my dad's computer - I don't know..
I don't remember what I was looking up or which site that I go to, I come here and a few other places. It's very possible that it was when someone posted the story Washington University Cancer genetic blueprint - from there I was reading various sites. It had the info you were looking for.
Anyway, where is your brother being treated? It might be easier to find the information that way.
edit - another link - SEER Survival Monograph: Cancer Survival Among Adults
Does anyone know of a website that helps compare healthcare outcomes. Specifically, I am interested in learning which hospitals or medical centers have the best outcomes for treatment of multiple myeloma. It seems like there should be some registry, website or service that would help this type of information.
Each state keeps their own cancer registry information. So google: your state cancer registry and you should find the link.
Accredited cancer programs ( by ACOS) do keep their cancer registry data. Don't be shy about phoning hospitals and asking for their data.
Firstly, don't take baking soda for cancer...you'll have no good solution to your problem (unless you want to die).
The best places to start are the US News reports on the best hospitals and the Press Gainey (patient satisfaction) reports for each hospital, they give what patients rate as the best hospitals in the country for each specialty (outcomes are some of their biggest weights). Then take a look at the % cure rates in the registry data to section out the best of the best. Last time I look the Mayo Clinic was one of the best all around, John Hopkins pretty close....but you can section by region as well, like OHSU is the best in the Pac NW or UH Case in Ohio.
The top rated hosital in the country for cancer is MD Anderson in houston .The second rated is Stanford medical center. Both are teaching hospitals associated with universities.
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