Reliable identification of the physician–patient relationship is necessary for accurate evaluation. Standardization of evidence-based attribution methods is essential to improve the value of ...
Among the endless number of decisions faced by those who run infusion centers, perhaps none is more hotly debated than what the “best” way is to assign patients to nurses. Over the last six years, my ...
The nurse-patient assignment process for infusion centers is a critical component of patient care. However, the manual assignment methods used at most infusion centers are inefficient, add ...
This article is part of a Health Affairs Forefront short series, “Enhancing Value By Evaluating Health Care Services.” The series discusses ways to extend the use of tools for clinical and economic ...
In traditional schedule or dose–schedule finding designs, patients are assumed to receive their assigned dose–schedule combination throughout the trial even though the combination may be found to have ...
Inpatient nursing at Madigan Army Medical Center is breaking new ground in how they manage both patients' care and nurse staffing with the help of specialized software. As one of the first military ...
As hospitals across the U.S. face a nursing shortage, care quality and patient safety continue to be put in jeopardy. Nurses are frequently assigned more patients, with 90 percent of nurses admitting ...
Brenda Pignone, a staff nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, arrives before 7 a.m. on a typical day. For 26 years, she's taken the elevator to a floor known as White 7, where most of her patients ...