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Concern about safety and, likewise, errors in medicine exploded after the first Institute of Medicine report “To Err is Human: building a safer health system” in 1999. (1 [...]

Investigators sought to determine whether or not integrating a clinical practice guideline into an electronic record (EHR) would improve adherence in pediatric patients p [...]

In the past decade, Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) has become mainstream. EBM can be defined as “the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in [...]

Advanced care planning (ACP) conversations are opportunities for patients to express values and medical decision making before and at the end of life. While current pract [...]

This work is the first step towards developing an ontology of intensive care unit orders. A data set comprised of 625 ICU orders from 34 randomly selected patients of sev [...]

Pediatric hypertension has recently emerged as an important clinical entity. However, it can be difficult to recognize due to the complicated process required to identify [...]

This article discusses ethical issues during end-of-life care in hospitals. The commonly used medical-ethics framework for ethical reasoning comprising of autonomy, benef [...]

Chronic disease management is an effective way to improve healthcare outcomes while also reducing healthcare expenditures. The Wallace Medical Concern a Portland-based co [...]

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States, causing more than 37,000 cases of cancer each year; over 90% of these c [...]