Turning suspicion into intervention remains a difficult matter for physicians and other health care professionals.

Inpatient status is known to be an independent predictor of poor bowel preparation quality, and there are limited data on predictors of bowel preparation. We found that hospitalized patients—except those with gastrointestinal bleeding—have much poore...

A main use would be for wireless and mobile health care. Only the physician would have access to the electrocardiograph data and could easily match it to the patient, without costly decryption.

The Patient Experience Policy Forum will focus on shaping patient-centered health care strategies at the national and state levels.

Many health care systems are focusing on medical-legal partnerships for patients who are high users of services.

Professional burnout is pervasive for U.S. physicians. This phenomenon should be attributed to the workplace, rather than the individual.

Among leadership qualities, transparency poses a special challenge because it requires more strategic balance in academic and private practice environments.

The case for implementing a data-driven, systems-based and outcomes-responsive renal disease management clinical model in the pre-ESRD population.

Naloxone is a remarkably effective treatment for opioid overdoses but available only by prescription? Some suggest expanded access would be a societal benefit.

A health care attorney suggests reviewing policies and clarifying training to avoid an incident similar to what occurred when a Utah investigator demanded a patient’s blood sample.

More than half of the 1,003 responding physicians supported the idea. Why? Excessive paperwork that takes their time away from patients.

Aware Recovery Care says it treats it as an illness that doesn’t disappear just because symptoms are under control.