Chronic illness care has evolved into a multi‐faceted approach that integrates healthcare delivery with patient self‐management to address long‐term conditions such as diabetes, depression and ...

Most illnesses today are measured in terms of their effects on daily activities, but who do not always consider the outcomes based on the patient's perspectives. Many clinical studies instead apply ...

This article is part of a Health Affairs Forefront short series, “Enhancing Value By Evaluating Health Care Services.” The series discusses ways to extend the use of tools for clinical and economic ...

This article, the second in our six-part series on critical care, discusses the role of systematic patient assessment in recognising and managing a deteriorating patient. This article comes with a ...

Adoption of new cancer drugs requires careful consideration of their benefits, toxicities, and costs. Patient experiences are rarely considered in trial design and drug-approval processes. Challenges ...

We spend 18 percent of our national gross domestic product on health care. As health care spending continues to grow and as we appropriately drive the health care system toward a payment system that ...

According to center policies, all patients deemed appropriate for procedures performed at the center are to be interviewed in order to collect a comprehensive patient history, to include medications, ...

Debra Fairley, MSc, Post Grad Cert, BSC, RGN, is critical care nurse consultant Jake Timothy, FRCS, FRCS (SN), MBBS, EANS Part A, is consultant neurosurgeon; Juliette Cosgrove, Post Grad Dip, MA, BSc, ...

CHICAGO — Injured patients were evaluated and received medical imaging tests 30% faster after an innovative performance improvement project was enacted at one hospital. "Being able to quickly identify ...

Patients are significantly likelier to survive a hospital stay if their hospitalist scored in the top quartile on a knowledge test linked to board certification. The odds that a patient survives a ...