Veteran paramedic and EMS educator Mark Rock’s new patient assessment model is now mandated policy for paramedics in Ventura ...

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 ...

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 ...

To ensure that value assessment accounts for patient needs, we need a better understanding of the outcomes that are most important to patients, write authors from COVIA Health Solutions and the ...

Obeid emphasized that risk assessment is a critical part of ongoing cancer care. It helps patients and their families understand the cancer’s causes, informs treatment options and supports strategies ...

Communications Learning Assessment (CLA) supports formative assessment in medical education by providing a structured ...

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 ...

Every detail matters. In healthcare, small actions can lead to big outcomes—and sometimes, those outcomes save lives. An often-overlooked threat in outpatient care is Venous Thromboembolism (VTE), ...

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, ...

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 ...

January 26, 2026 - PRESSADVANTAGE - Chiropractor Evansville has announced a continued focus on back pain relief through ...