Increasing emphasis is being placed on the development of authentic instruments for assessing the competence of health professionals. Patients offer a unique perspective for assessing aspects of ...
In its latest PFDD installment, the FDA offers a detailed roadmap for sponsors seeking to design, adapt, or validate COAs that accurately ...
EMS providers can play an important role in a patient’s ongoing care and safety. Scene observations of poor or unsafe living conditions, interaction with exhausted caregivers and suspicions of abuse ...
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 ...
SourceMedical has announced an important new level of clinical integration designed to provide immediate access to patient pre-assessment data, permitting ASCs to integrate electronic patient medical ...
Patterns of Resuscitation Care and Survival After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Patients With Advanced Cancer Good communication can be associated with better end-of-life outcomes. The US Oncology ...
For Erin Moore, keeping her son’s cystic fibrosis in check requires careful monitoring to prevent the thick, sticky mucous his body produces from further damaging his lungs and digestive system. Moore ...
Measuring patient weight is considered a routine assessment that is frequently delegated to unregistered staff. Yet patient weight is a fundamental part of nutrition assessment and may be used to ...
A higher threshold for patient global assessment — 2 cm rather than 1 cm — increases agreement between Boolean and index-based rheumatoid arthritis remission criteria, according to data published in ...