High Quality Care as Important as Universal Health Coverage in Reducing Global Mortality
Universal health coverage has been proposed as a way of improving access to healthcare in low- and middle-income countries.
Universal health coverage has been proposed as a way of improving access to healthcare in low- and middle-income countries.
The use of medical scribes for electronic health record documentation reduced primary care physician burden.
Prices of prescription drugs in short supply between 2015 and 2016 were found to increase more than twice as quickly as they would have in the absence of a shortage.
Although the trend of “precision public health” promises to change the landscape of the public health field, concerns surrounding the scientific, practical, and ethical implications have cast a shadow over the innovation.
Clinical practice guidelines are an important part of medical practice, but scarce funding for updates and the risk for bias have raised challenges.
With the ubiquitous availability of digital technology such as smartphones, smart watches, health-related apps, and patient monitoring devices, the era of mHealth is upon us.
Researchers conducted a double-blind crossover study in adults with treatment-resistant depression to determine the involvement of the opioid system in ketamine’s antidepressant effects.
The promise of big data and predictive analytics to provide new predictive models and improve the practice of medicine must overcome 4 major hurdles before it can be considered of clinical value.
A providers’ capacity to feel compassion is affected in part by the practice environment.
Study results serve as an important impetus for physicians, nurses, hospital administrators, and others involved in the care of hospitalized patients to optimize sleep in the hospital setting.