Why Surgical Volumes Should Be Public
Her voice cracked with strain. I could imagine the woman at the other end of the line shaking, overcome with remorse about the hospital where… Read More »Why Surgical Volumes Should Be Public
Her voice cracked with strain. I could imagine the woman at the other end of the line shaking, overcome with remorse about the hospital where… Read More »Why Surgical Volumes Should Be Public
If we want to rein in the costs of the U.S. health-care system — now equal to nearly 18 percent of the nation's gross domestic… Read More »How We Can Engineer a Less Costly Health Care System
If you understand statistics and possess the intestinal fortitude to examine a ranking methodology, you will recognize that it involves ingredients that have to be… Read More »More Science, Less Sausage-Making Needed for Hospital Quality Measures
In 2013, a 52-year-old man went to an emergency department complaining of dizziness. Physicians evaluated him, decided that it was a benign condition — as… Read More »Common Symptoms, Uncommon Causes: Reducing Misdiagnosis on the Front Lines
In the technology-thick landscape of modern health care, the physical exam remains in a backwoods. Sure, there have been advances — blood-pressure cuffs, for example,… Read More »Reinventing the Physical Exam
Health care has been thinking about medical errors for nearly 20 years, starting with the Institute of Medicine’s 1999 report “To Err is Human.” This… Read More »Thinking Outside the Hospital: A Call to Action for Outpatient Safety
Every American will experience a missed or delayed diagnosis at some point in his or her lifetime. Saying that is not a scare tactic —… Read More »How Teamwork Can Reduce Missed Diagnoses
There has been no shortage of blame for the poisoning of Flint, Michigan's water supply. In March, a governor-appointed task force issued a report that… Read More »How the Flint Water Crisis Is a Cautionary Tale for Health Care
For anyone with a serious medical condition, frequent hospitalizations and clinic visits can have a profoundly disruptive impact. Yet adolescent and teenage patients have a… Read More »What Teenage Patients — and Their Parents — Want from Their Care Team
Tens of thousands of people owe their lives to extracorporeal life support (ECLS) — a treatment that uses mechanical devices to perform the work of… Read More »Improving the Odds for a Chance at Life