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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Regardless of the outcome of the current health reform debate, patients are likely to continue to be asked to take more responsibility for their health care, whether through high-deductible health ...

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 ...

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