It’s no surprise that inappropriate care decisions can negatively impact patients, but they also place a strain on the entire health care system. At a time when the demand for health care providers ...

Evidence-based nursing is the process by which nurses and other clinical experts determine best practices in healthcare. Using the electronic platform Ovid Synthesis, AdventHealth has broadened the ...

Recently, health insurer WellPoint partnered with IBM’s Watson technology in an effort to help physicians diagnose and design treatment plans based on large amounts of data and evidence. Watson is ...

The lung cancer framework aims to standardise diagnosis, therapy, and patient-centric palliative care nationwide to improve outcomes and quality of life ...

At a Kansas City, Missouri, meeting of the Institute for Value-Based Medicine®, speakers discussed ways to eliminate wasteful care and build the infrastructure required to advance value-based care ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines evidence-based practice (EBP) as an interdisciplinary approach to clinical decision-making that includes the best available evidence, care context and ...

Clinical practice in the United States is marked by significant variation, leading in some cases to suboptimal quality of care and poor health outcomes. Despite the proliferation of clinical practice ...

A recent study examined patients' outcomes after receiving care based on scientific and clinical evidence. The work, which is published in Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, also reviewed the ...

As the national organization representing nearly 50,000 physicians and other health care professionals specializing in cancer treatment, diagnosis, prevention, and research, ASCO supports effective ...

Less than a third of patients discuss alcohol use with their primary care physician ...

The guidelines were formally released by Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda at Kartavya Bhavan in ...