NEW ORLEANS ― Evaluating a patient's capacity to make decisions about his or her personal healthcare can present a significant challenge for physicians, but evaluating intoxicated patients has its own ...

Virtual Molecular and Precision Medicine Clinic to Improve Access to Clinical Trials for Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer: An Academic/Community Collaboration While the use of electronic patient ...

Specialists examine techniques for assessing pathological complete responses and various methods for response measurement in patients with NSCLC. David Carbone, MD, PhD: Dr Jabbour, how are you ...

Drs Zeidan and Fazal share their opinions on setting appropriate goals for treatment of patients with MDS. Ryan Haumschild, PharmD, MS, MBA: Let’s talk a little more about the management of ...

A young female hospital patient lies in bed while attached to a medical transfusion device in a London medical clinic. Health technology assessment (HTA) entities adopt different value frameworks as a ...

Effective care coordination (CC) is a hallmark of a high-quality cancer care. However, efforts to improve cancer care delivery are limited by the lack of a clinically useful tool to assess CC. In this ...

Background: Physician employment by hospitals and healthcare systems has become a growing phenomenon in America. Also the emphasis on improving patient care quality is receiving increasing attention.

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 ...

This article is part of a Health Affairs Forefront short series, “Enhancing Value By Evaluating Health Care Services.” The series discusses ways to extend the use of tools for clinical and economic ...

While high-dose chemotherapy and autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) can deepen remissions and improve outcomes for multiple myeloma, these treatments come with significant risks, ...