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AHRQ and Ad Council Encourage Consumers to Ask Questions and Get More Involved in Their Health Care
Published in Women's Health Weekly, April 30th, 2009
A new series of national public service advertisements designed to encourage consumers to get involved in their health care by knowing and asking appropriate questions when visiting their doctor or other clinicians was launched today by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality with The Advertising Council and actress and health advocate Fran Drescher.
The new "Questions" PSAs, which were created pro bono by Grey New York, encourage all patients to become more involved in their own health care by asking questions of their doctors or other clinicians. The ads feature people asking questions in everyday situations, such...
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