This poem highlights the complexity and lasting impact of loss. Healthcare professionals frequently offer bereaved families fleeting condolences, but by adopting narra [...]

Access to health care coverage in the United States is far from equitable and raises many ethical questions related to fairness. Access refers to the ease in which an ind [...]

University of Oregon Medical School

The measurement of attitudes toward the implementation of an electronic medical record could help in planning the implementation process and schedule. For example, rollou [...]

Traditional emergency medical service (EMS) systems operate at the intersection of community, public health, and hospital systems and are strategically positioned to adap [...]

The use of specialty transport teams is known to improve outcomes for critically ill or injured patients compared to those transported by non-specialized teams (Orr, Pedi [...]

The Pediatric Gastroenterology (Peds GI) division at Oregon Health & Sciences University (OHSU) aims to expand their team to include an additional faculty psychologis [...]

Pregnant patients who screen positive for substance use require specialized prenatal care coordination, yet many practices lack standardized protocols for substance use m [...]

Photograph of Dr. Albert Starr with one of the first patients to receive an artificial heart valve (Barman).

Preoperative clinics have been utilized by academic medical centers to optimize patient outcomes and operating room (OR) utilization. There are few reports of the impact [...]