A new poll just released should bring a smile to a few faces, as well as perhaps save some medical costs. Primary care physicians that were surveyed described how they are practicing more aggressively than they would like, while nearly half of them estimated that their patients are receiving too much medical care...

According to a study in the December issue of JAMA, a survey of nurses and physicians in intensive care units (ICUs) in Europe and Israel suggested that the perception of inappropriate care was common, for example, excess intensity of care for a patient, and that these perceptions were linked to ...

The sixth edition of The American College of Physicians (ACP) Ethics Manual has been published as an addition to the current issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, ACP's leading journal. The aim of the manual is to help the way ethical decisions in clinical teaching, practice, and medical research are ...

While there is considerable interest in bundling payments to health care providers to encourage them to cut costs, putting the strategy into practice is proving to be more difficult than anticipated. That's the lesson being drawn from a new RAND Corporation study that examined the first three years of a ...

According to a study published on bmj.com today, the outcomes for individuals undergoing surgery in independent sector treatment centers (ISTCs) are slightly better than compared to patients undergoing surgery by NHS centers. However, the researchers, led by Professor Jan van der Meulen at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical ...

A review and analysis of 26 validated hospital readmission risk prediction models finds that most, whether for hospital comparison or clinical purposes, have poor predictive ability, according to an article in the October 19 issue of JAMA. "An increasing body of literature attempts to describe and validate hospital readmission risk ...

A new poll just released should bring a smile to a few faces, as well as perhaps save some medical costs. Primary care physicians that were surveyed described how they are practicing more aggressively than they would like, while nearly half of them estimated that their patients are receiving too ...

According to an investigation in the September 7 issue of JAMA, a medical education theme issue in a recent academic year, suboptimal quality-of-life, dissatisfaction with work-life balance, and burnout symptoms of emotional exhaustion which were linked with higher levels of educational debt were frequently reported in the study that consisted ...