In its latest PFDD installment, the FDA offers a detailed roadmap for sponsors seeking to design, adapt, or validate COAs that accurately ...

EMS providers can play an important role in a patient’s ongoing care and safety. Scene observations of poor or unsafe living conditions, interaction with exhausted caregivers and suspicions of abuse ...

We spend 18 percent of our national gross domestic product on health care. As health care spending continues to grow and as we appropriately drive the health care system toward a payment system that ...

SourceMedical has announced an important new level of clinical integration designed to provide immediate access to patient pre-assessment data, permitting ASCs to integrate electronic patient medical ...

Most patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Europe are treated in primary care, but perceptions on what guides primary care physicians (PCPs) in managing patients are lacking.

Patterns of Resuscitation Care and Survival After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Patients With Advanced Cancer Good communication can be associated with better end-of-life outcomes. The US Oncology ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A higher threshold for patient global assessment — 2 cm rather than 1 cm — increases agreement between Boolean ...

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 ...

Janine E. Curcio and Dr. Robert Lowe provide a seven-point scale based on speech and responsiveness to decide whether or not to use sedation for an agitated patient. Managing an agitated or aggressive ...

This guidance replaces the Principles for Providing Safe and Good Quality Care in Temporary Escalation Spaces, published on 16 September 2024.