
Patient safety is a national concern. Major stakeholders throughout our health care system agree that every step must be taken to ensure that medical interventions, used with the intention of ...
NEJM- Volume 360:1172-1174 - March 19, 2009 Number 12 Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Cardiac Care Eric Peterson, M.D., M.P.H., and Clyde W. Yancy, M.D. Of all the ...
Last Updated: Tuesday, March 3, 2009 | 11:28 AM ET .-The Canadian Press An infusion of cash to cut long MRI wait times has doubled the number of the annual diagnostic scans performed in Ontario ...
In everyday life when an error occurs, disclosure, apology and restitution are expected. In health care when a medical error occurs, disclosure and apology are often overridden by the fear of ...
A new report from the American Cancer Society says despite unprecedented progress in reducing incidence and death rates from colorectal cancer, the gap between blacks and whites continues to grow. ...
Por Internet se ofertan terapias con células madre falsas y costosas a pacientes desesperados, señalan los expertos. En respuesta, la principal organización de científicos que investigan con células ...
Un estudio sugiere que los centros de transplante no están atendiendo a los que tienen menos recursos Un estudio reciente señala que los estadounidenses que no tienen seguro de salud tienen cerca de ...
International Journal of Health Services Issue: Volume 38, Number 4/2008, Pages: 641-652 Andrew A. Herring , Steffie Woolhandler , David U. Himmelstein Abstract: Organ ...
Las noticias sobre cáncer y atención médica que alertan sobre la detección tardía del cáncer en los afroamericanos y la disminución de la supervivencia respecto de los blancos desalentarían a la ...
The global war on terror has brought renewed attention to the question of whether physicians in the U.S. military are physicians first, soldiers first, or physician–soldiers, or whether some other ...
ABSTRACTS: Articulating the public's widespread unease about animal biotechnology has not been easy, and the first attempts have not been able to provide an effective tool for navigating the moral ...