The complexity of patients undergoing PCI at sites without surgical backup is increasing, but their outcomes are staying similar to those of cases done at centers that also offer cardiac surgery, ...

Complexity in Health Care: A Paradigm shift for Clinical Practice (Springer 2023) by Steven A. Frankel, Steven D. Thurber, and James A. Bourgeois offers a healthy departure from standard approaches to ...

A recent article from Mayo Clinic President and CEO Gianrico Farrugia, M.D., offers a compelling glimpse of what that future ...

A visit can seem to start in such a simple manner. A patient arrives for the appointment with a chief concern or a chief complaint. Simple enough. But a few questions into the visit, it becomes ...

As the lines blur between specialty and general medicine, pharma faces a critical inflection point. Primary care is increasingly tasked with initiating and managing complex therapies — once the sole ...

An AI-guided platform at Penn Medicine allows clinicians to quickly and easily unearth pertinent information from patients’ ...

Caring for complex patients — those experiencing a laundry list of conditions simultaneously — can be challenging for any physician. From incorporating multiple specialists to working with social ...

Employed primary care physicians at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, part of Boston-based Partners HealthCare, have roughly 10 percent of their salaries tied to the ...

As America’s hospitalized patients become increasingly complex, so does their treatment. Today, almost 30 percent of US adults have multiple chronic conditions [1]. When medically complex patients ...

Maria College nursing students will soon staff an outpatient clinic for Albany Medical Center Hospital patients who don't ...

With more people living longer, it’s becoming likelier that an individual will be dealing with more than one chronic health condition, such as heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, any number ...