Expert-Based Opinions: A Supplement to, Not a Replacement for, Evidence-Based Content
Nationally recognized and highly regarded health systems have a variety of ways to expand the...
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Information Rx: The Missing Piece of Quality Care
The vast majority of healthcare takes place outside of a physician’s office. Consumers often care...
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The Innovation Fetish
There is a joke shared by statisticians, scrap dealers, and emergency medicine professionals about...
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Conference Highlights: CHEST 2017
Shared Decision Making & Lung Cancer Screening Shared decision-making for lung cancer...
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Comparing Ventilation Approaches for Pneumonia
Pneumonia is the leading infectious cause of hospitalization in US, resulting in more than 1...
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Robotically Assisted PCI for Complex CAD
The use of robotics in interventional cardiology offers operators the ability to safely and...
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Three Effective Ways to Pick Quality Improvement Targets
My first exposure to Lean as a quality improvement (QI) approach was at a well-known automotive...
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Dutch physician Lars Brouwers driving to Africa to deliver 3D printed hands
A physician from the Netherlands is attempting to drive to Sierra Leone in order to set up a...
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Three Ineffective Institutional Approaches to Quality Improvement in Healthcare
In 2012, there were estimates of waste in US healthcare amounting to $750 billion per year, or...
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Advancing Genomic Tests in Cardiovascular Medicine
We can “scarcely imagine a more exciting time to be engaged in translational research” in...
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Continuing Life Sustaining Therapy in the Face of Futility
One of the most difficult challenges physicians encounter is assisting terminally ill patients who...
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Conference Highlights: SABCS 2017
Arm Morbidity Rates in Young Breast Cancer Survivors With the move away from axillary node...
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OTC Medications for Diabetics: 7 Considerations
By Andy Skean, Senior Editor, Physician’s Weekly The over-the-counter (OTC) medication...
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Changing Behaviors in HIV-Infected Smokers
Data indicate that people living with HIV smoke tobacco at a rate that is nearly three times that...
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3D Printing an Osteoporotic Mandible to Aid in Surgery
Together with maxillofacial surgeon, Erik Nout, MD, DDS, PhD, I prepared a stereolithography file...
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Making Patient Education a Two-Way Street
With the increased focus on patient engagement to improve outcomes, we as clinicians must think...
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3D Printing Aids Fistulotomy
Together with colorectal surgeon David Zimmerman, MD, PhD, FEBS, I’m exploring the world of...
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2017 HIV/AIDS Statistics – Facts on Rates, Cost & More
In the 1980s, at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, more than 59,000 Americans lost their lives...
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#PWChat – Diabetes Management in the Cardiovascular Outcome Trial Era
Join us Monday, November 27 at 3:00pm ET / Noon PT for a live, interactive tweetchat with former...
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Statin Continuation Following an Adverse Event
Statins are among the most widely studied, successful medications in the treatment and prevention...
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