Developed in partnership with the Royal College of Physicians, the Society for Acute Medicine and the British Geriatrics Society.

Although approximately one in five Medicare beneficiaries are discharged from hospital acute care to postacute care at skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), little is known about access to timely medical ...

The blueprint emphasizes embedding patient perspectives in research to foster equitable, transparent, and responsive health care systems. It outlines 6 stages for integrating patient input, ensuring ...

Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are being increasingly integrated into routine clinical practice to enhance individual patient care. This has been driven by recognition of the benefits of PROs in ...

A patient deteriorates quickly in the step-down unit. Nurses hurriedly transport the patient to the ICU and call the doctor, ...

We spend 18 percent of our national gross domestic product on health care. As health care spending continues to grow and as we appropriately drive the health care system toward a payment system that ...

That legal framing sets the stage for “Getting past ‘no’ when the patient needs to go,” in which Samantha Johnson, Esq.; and Lekshmi Kumar examine refusals as a systems issue — one shaped by culture, ...

This self-assessment tool has been developed to help trust teams assess and provide board-level assurance on the safety, quality and delivery of non-elective care in the first 72 hours in hospital, ...