Determined to achieve meaningful use of electronic health records (EHR), hospitals and health systems will increasingly adopt clinical information technology between now and 2015. This is certainly a ...

It is well known that both scarcity of resources and expectations of efficacy influence preferences and decisions in healthcare. But how do these two factors (scarcity and expectations) affect when ...

Validation studies are crucial to the establishment of an accurate patient classification system in the psychiatric setting. This paper describes and discusses a validity study done on four forensic ...

This article explores the congruence between payer patient assignment and quality performance and the implications for incentive payments in alternative payment models. Objectives: To assess the ...

A team of Harvard University researchers has developed what they say is an easy-to-use classification system for evaluating individual teeth that could help standardize caries assessment, simplify ...