What are the most effective ways to evaluate patient safety in a healthcare setting? This new study focuses specifically on a logic model to determine safety in intensive care units.

This paper examines the 5-year growth, survival, and long-term safety of children who were treated in an African perinatal prevention trial, HIVNET 012.

This study explored behavioral and pharmacological interventions for maintaining weight loss in obese adults to determine which were most effective over the long-term.

Patient involvement in their health care can reduce errors, adverse events, and non-adherence. What are some specific barriers which inhibit shared understanding and decision making with patients?

Failed epidural anesthesia or analgesia is more common than one might think. What causes the failure?

This paper examines the 5-year growth, survival, and long-term safety of children who were treated in an African perinatal prevention trial, HIVNET 012.

Is it impossible to adhere fully to current heart failure guidelines in daily clinical practice?

Medication errors and associated adverse drug events (ADEs) are issues of public policy because of their economic and clinical impact.

Does a normal leukocyte count in the cerebrospinal fluid necessarily exclude the possibility of bacterial meningitis?

When noncompliant patients become a liability to individual providers is it acceptable to dismiss them?

It has been posited that the legalization of physician-assisted suicide would likely lead to a reduction in other suicides, but this study found otherwise.

Pregnancy rates are increasing among HIV positive women in the United States. Are these pregnancies planned?

This ambitious study sought to quantify global consumption of key dietary fats and oils by country, age, and sex in 1990 and 2010. How have patterns of consumption changed?

MR and positron emission mammography and dedicated breast MRI have conditions that limit their use. How accurately does MDCT differentiate breast lesions suspected on mammography and sonography?

Is D-dimer screening being used according to established diagnostic algorithms to determine the need for MDCT in diagnosing acute pulmonary embolism in emergency department patients?

Pharmacist-managed drug therapy improved outcomes and saved money for hospitalized Medicare patients receiving these two common medications.

Ablation can be a 'lifesaving' procedure in the acute setting of ventricular arrhythmia storm.

This review summarizes different state rules on the use of preprinted prescriptions, examining the advantages and disadvantages of this increasingly common practice.

In spite of its relatively heavy impact on decision making, ejection fraction isn't the only factor for MI prognostics . . .

This article provides a framework for improving quality for national healthcare reform using the translation of available evidence of policy and managerial decisions.