The $1.1 billion earmarked for comparative effectiveness research in the economic stimulus bill passed on February 13 could be a sound investment in improving health care’s efficiency, cutting costs, and improving patient outcomes.
Facing Conflicts: The Battle between Medicine and Industry
Losing Sleep over Residents’ Work Week Restrictions
Medical residents used to work shifts so long that fatigue blurred their vision, clouded their judgment, and overall put them on the brink of mental and physical exhaustion.
Efforts Under Way to Improve Assessment of Operative Competency
At the 2007 annual meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS), investigators from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Kansas reported on a needs assessment that identified a number of issues related to improving the formal assessment of operative competency among otolaryngologists-head and neck surgeons.
What Is the Effect of ACGME Duty Hours Regulations?
PQRI: ‘We’re from the Government, and We’re Here to Help’
Developing Quality Measures in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Quality Improvement: We Are Not Alone
This issue’s Special Report is on quality improvement, an increasingly important health care issue not only in this country, but also in many other countries around the world.
Otolaryngologists View Resident Work-Hour Restrictions: ACS calls for in-depth investigation before mandating further restrictions
In response to many national calls to enhance patient safety, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) mandated a maximum 80-hour workweek for all residents beginning in 2003.
Otolaryngologists-Head and Neck Surgeons Urged: Be Part of the Solution in Health Care Reform
With the crisis in the financial markets reaching what many call historic proportions, another crisis long brewing is threatening to surface that, if some experts are correct, could have even greater consequences than the financial crisis for the US health care system.
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