The Santa Barbara Independent

Santa Barbara Paramedic Flips Traditional Patient Assessment on Its Head

Veteran paramedic and EMS educator Mark Rock’s new patient assessment model is now mandated policy for paramedics in Ventura ...

Alcohol-intoxicated, severely injured patients often misdiagnosed, receive less treatment before hospital arrival

Physical trauma is the leading cause of death in young adults. About 1 in 4 patients with multiple trauma is ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Patient-Centered Outcome Assessment May Lead to Different Conclusions and Different Treatment Decisions

Most illnesses today are measured in terms of their effects on daily activities, but who do not always consider the outcomes based on the patient's perspectives. Many clinical studies instead apply ...
Healio

Patient psychology matters: Lessons learned from the MOON Shoulder Group

Kuhn, MD, MS, discussed lessons learned on shoulder instability from the Multicenter Orthopaedic Outcomes Network Shoulder ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Contributor: The Critical Role of Patient Engagement in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research and Health Technology Assessment of Rare Disease Treatments

Patient engagement is a necessity when performing health technology assessment to help better assess and identify the outcomes of a rare disease. Rare diseases present distinct challenges to health ...
MedPage Today

Diagnostic Errors Common in Hospital Deaths, ICU Transfers, Study Suggests

Diagnostic errors among hospitalized adults who died or were transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) were fairly common, a retrospective cohort study suggested. In a random sample of over 2,400 ...