NEW ORLEANS ― Evaluating a patient's capacity to make decisions about his or her personal healthcare can present a significant challenge for physicians, but evaluating intoxicated patients has its own ...

Researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine have developed a tool to test how well a doctor delivers patient-centered care by assessing whether medical students have learned and are ...

Communications Learning Assessment (CLA) supports formative assessment in medical education by providing a structured ...

Specialists examine techniques for assessing pathological complete responses and various methods for response measurement in patients with NSCLC. David Carbone, MD, PhD: Dr Jabbour, how are you ...

Increasing emphasis is being placed on the development of authentic instruments for assessing the competence of health professionals. Patients offer a unique perspective for assessing aspects of ...

Veteran paramedic and EMS educator Mark Rock’s new patient assessment model is now mandated policy for paramedics in Ventura ...

Background: Physician employment by hospitals and healthcare systems has become a growing phenomenon in America. Also the emphasis on improving patient care quality is receiving increasing attention.

In this second article of a six-part series on critical care medicine, we discuss patient assessment. The assessment process must consider the patient’s physiological, sociological, psychological and ...

This article is part of a Health Affairs Forefront short series, “Enhancing Value By Evaluating Health Care Services.” The series discusses ways to extend the use of tools for clinical and economic ...