To ensure that value assessment accounts for patient needs, we need a better understanding of the outcomes that are most important to patients, write authors from COVIA Health Solutions and the ...

Routine and ongoing surveillance of patients’ PCC experiences could inform quality improvement initiatives aimed not only at enhancing patients’ experiences with care but also at improving health ...

Patients and caregivers play a central role in health care safety in the hospital, ambulatory care setting, and community. Despite this, interventions to promote patient engagement in safety are still ...

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 ...

Despite advances in clinical cancer care, cancer survivors frequently report a range of persisting issues, unmet needs, and concerns that limit their ability to participate in life roles and reduce ...

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 ...

As healthcare technology continues to evolve at breakneck speed, medical professionals are witnessing unprecedented changes in how they deliver patient care. From AI-powered diagnostics to virtual ...

Researchers suggest that specialized nutritional rehabilitation programs and cachexia clinics are ideal for managing anorexia-cachexia syndrome in patients with cancer.

For hospitalized patients whose death is imminent, palliative care can alleviate distressing symptoms that are common during the last few days or weeks of life. The essentials of such care that are ...

People living with neurological diseases such as Parkinson's disease, dementia and epilepsy face not only physical decline, ...