NBME announced the availability of its Communication Learning Assessment (CLA), which is designed to help medical students practice and develop patient-centered communication skills early in their ...

A patient assessment tool, known as the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy–Leukemia (FACT-Leu), was a viable and valid outcome measure for patients with acute myeloid leukemia not eligible for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For some patients, home therapies are preferable to in-center dialysis treatment. This option has been ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . DENVER — A risk stratification assessment assisted both patients with Crohn’s disease and their physicians when ...

Researchers developed a standardized tool to assess the functional impact of tardive dyskinesia on patients. A standardized scale to assess the severity of symptoms in patients with tardive dyskinesia ...

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine has developed and validated a patient-reported outcome tool for use in a clinical setting to monitor treatment response and longitudinal symptom progression in ...

Janine E. Curcio and Dr. Robert Lowe provide a seven-point scale based on speech and responsiveness to decide whether or not to use sedation for an agitated patient. Managing an agitated or aggressive ...

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, in collaboration with the CDC, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology and the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America, ...

Contributing factors for diagnostic delays in advanced lung cancer (LC) patients and the role of multidisciplinary tumor board (MTB) discussion in a community hospital setting. This is an ASCO Meeting ...

In this study, the authors developed a method for use in primary care to identify a group of patients with complex care needs using Aggregated Diagnosis Groups. Objectives: To produce an efficient and ...