Virtual consultations hold the potential to transform patient care; however, their capacity to fully replace face-to-face interactions remains uncertain. ten Haaft and colleagues present findings from ...

Healthcare design is about more than clinical function or visual appeal. It’s about anticipating emotional needs, easing ...

Health systems can achieve significant returns on investment by prioritizing quality and patient safety, according to a June 2 report from the National Association for Healthcare Quality. The report ...

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...

UW Medicine and Aetna did not agree on a new contract before a June 1 deadline, meaning more than 50,000 patients could soon ... continued access to high-quality care and is in the best interests ...

KINECT-PRO is the first and only study to specifically evaluate and demonstrate patient-reported improvement with vesicular monoamine transporter 2 inhibitor treatment, specifically INGREZZA, on ...

The researchers also did not assess specific geriatric parameters such as frailty, which may affect patients’ quality of life. “We were confident that the drug would be effective, but what was ...

First and foremost, we must ensure the state budget does not cause unintended harm to providers and patients in the short ... jeopardize nationally recognized quality, or harm healthcare access ...

Objective To examine in-centre haemodialysis patients’ emotional distress and need for support across UK renal units with varying models of psychosocial service provision. Design The study used a ...

Background Healthcare patient safety investigations inappropriately focus on individual culpability and the target of recommendations is often on the behaviours of individuals, rather than addressing ...

Objective: To develop a framework for understanding factors affecting the use of patient survey data in quality improvement. Design: Qualitative interviews with senior health professionals and ...