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 ...

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 ...

As healthcare technology continues to evolve at breakneck speed, medical professionals are witnessing unprecedented changes in how they deliver patient care. From AI-powered diagnostics to virtual ...

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) inspired the quality improvement movement for US nursing homes with its 1986 report titled Improving the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes. 1 The report noted the ...

Nurses are on the front lines of patient care and act as key drivers of healthcare change, including the use of telehealth technology. As medical technology improves, the role of telehealth in nursing ...

In this article, we argue in favor of a promising paradigm for training physicians: competency-based medical education (CBME). 10 CBME takes an outcomes-based approach in training learners to become ...

Palliative Care is the medical specialty focused on relief of the pain, stress and other debilitating symptoms of serious illness. Palliative care is not dependent on prognosis and can be delivered at ...