Some people find it difficult to talk about pain. They may not be able to find just the right words to describe what the pain feels like or to remember when it was at its worst or when they last felt ...

According to center policies, all patients deemed appropriate for procedures performed at the center are to be interviewed in order to collect a comprehensive patient history, to include medications, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Home-Based Management of Patients With Cancer Experiencing Treatment-Induced Toxicities With a Nurse-Led Telephone Triage (the NTT Study) This was a secondary mixed methods analysis of the COACH study ...

This guide will help you care for someone with cancer. Being a caregiver can be a very rewarding experience, but at the same time, can be very challenging. Caregivers often need to balance their work ...

Janine E. Curcio and Dr. Robert Lowe provide a seven-point scale based on speech and responsiveness to decide whether or not to use sedation for an agitated patient. Managing an agitated or aggressive ...