When persons living at home or in care facilities (referred to here as “patients”) choose to engage in activities that put themselves or others at risk of harm, health care providers must find... Read More
Clinical Articles
Background Atul Gawande’s 2012 TED Talk about improving health care (How do we heal medicine?) proposes that medical staff should function like a pit crew in a car race, with each skilled crew... Read More
The residential care initiative (RCI) of the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) aims to improve care for patients in facilities through five best practice recommendations,[1] one of which is... Read More
In 2009 a landmark study found that nearly 20% of US Medicare beneficiaries were readmitted to hospital within 30 days, prompting hospital readmissions to become a major focus of health care quality... Read More
Early miscarriage has been reported to occur in 17% to 31% of pregnancies,[1,2] and is defined as a nonviable intrauterine pregnancy with either an empty gestational sac or a gestational sac... Read More