Given that accountable care organizations (ACOs) will be rated on patient experience and wait times for specialist consults are associated with patient satisfaction, ACOs should monitor this process.

Remote consults using optical coherence tomography data show high agreement with traditional clinic evaluations for the ...

Welcome to Ethics Consult -- an opportunity to discuss, debate (respectfully), and learn together. We select an ethical dilemma in patient care, you vote, and then we present an expert's judgment.

Welcome to Ethics Consult -- an opportunity to discuss, debate (respectfully), and learn together. We select an ethical dilemma from a true, but anonymized, patient care case, and then we provide an ...

An artery in Dr. David Ellis’ heart had clogged. His cardiologists had recommended insertion of a tiny tube threaded through the clog to clear a pathway, rather than more invasive open-heart surgery.

The advent of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and the ability to safely and accurately biopsy the prostate as an outpatient procedure coupled with increased public awareness has led to a dramatic ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Previous studies in the United States have been limited to individual centers or infections, or to Medicare ...

Evaluation of an Interprofessional Training Program to Improve Cancer Drug Therapy Safety Traditionally, pathologists have been branded the doctor's doctor, with a position behind the microscope and ...

Obtaining informed consent for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), a complicated life-threatening procedure, is often a difficult task involving many individuals, and occurs slowly over ...

A California appeals court ruled July 22 that nursing home physicians and staff must consult with patients who have been found mentally incompetent, or those patient’s representatives, before ...