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 ...

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 ...

Photo by Ron Moore The driver of this vehicle was wearing a seatbelt at the moment of the collision. The pretensioner fired and prevented the seatbelt recoiler spool from retracting. You can believe ...

Financial Distress in Genitourinary Cancer: Insights From CDC National Health Interview Survey Stakeholder engagement, a review of the literature, and 2 years of CPC data collected in the cancer ...

At the recent Yankee Dental Congress in Boston, Philips introduced a new, free, online patient risk assessment tool called CARE (Customized Assessment and Risk Evaluator) to aid dental professionals ...

Some people find it difficult to talk about pain. They may not be able to find just the right words to describe what the pain feels like or to remember when it was at its worst or when they last felt ...

Janine E. Curcio and Dr. Robert Lowe provide a seven-point scale based on speech and responsiveness to decide whether or not to use sedation for an agitated patient. Managing an agitated or aggressive ...

Subcutaneous Rituximab-MiniCHOP Compared With Subcutaneous Rituximab-MiniCHOP Plus Lenalidomide in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma for Patients Age 80 Years or Older We analyzed 1,163 patients (median ...

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, in collaboration with the CDC, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology and the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America, ...