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Setting up a hotline.

Shelley Rouillard, J Bridget Sheehan-Watanabe

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Consumer assistance hotlines represent one important model for delivering health-care information to consumers. However, developing and managing such programs can be complicated. This issue brief presents some of the issues involved in setting up and maintaining a hotline. It also highlights the experiences of the Health Rights Hotline, an independent consumer assistance program in Sacramento, California.

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Consumer assistance hotlines represent one important model for delivering health-care information to consumers. However, developing and managing such programs can be complicated. This issue brief presents some of the issues involved in setting up and maintaining a hotline. It also highlights the experiences of the Health Rights Hotline, an independent consumer assistance program in Sacramento, California.

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Consumer assistance hotlines represent one important model for delivering health-care information to consumers. However, developing and managing such programs can be complicated. This issue brief presents some of the issues involved in setting up and maintaining a hotline. It also highlights the experiences of the Health Rights Hotline, an independent consumer assistance program in Sacramento, California.

Key concepts: Hotline, Public relations, Business, Internet privacy, Medical emergency, Medicine, Political science, Telecommunications

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