Myocardial no-reflow may negate the benefit of urgent coronary revascularization in patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Among its pathogenetic mechanisms, distal ...

Los pacientes hospitalizados que sufren un efecto adverso de un tratamiento son más propensos a calificar mejor la calidad de la atención cuando el personal médico les explica cuál fue el error, ...

Posted by NEJM • October 28th, 2009 • Diane R. Rittenhouse, M.D., M.P.H., Stephen M. Shortell, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., and Elliott S. Fisher, M.D., M.P.H. With discussions about U.S. health care ...

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Institute of Medicine's report To Err Is Human,1 the document that launched the modern patient-safety movement. Although the movement has spawned myriad ...

Building a Bridge from Fragmentation to Accountability — The Prometheus Payment Model Posted by NEJM • August 19th, 2009 François de Brantes, M.S., M.B.A., Meredith B. Rosenthal, Ph.D., and Michael ...

In 2007, Congress directed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to create a new postmarketing surveillance system that will, by 2012, be using electronic health data from 100 million people to ...

  Comprehensive primary care approach can reduce health care costs among the sickest and most expensive patients, study shows The nation's sickest and most expensive patients need fewer health ...

Background Policymakers have recently proposed ways of providing health care coverage for an increased number of uninsured persons. However, there are few data that show how the incidence and ...

First sister study results reinforce the importance of healthy living Women who maintain a healthy weight and who have lower perceived stress may be less likely to have chromosome changes associated ...

Editorial Nature 458, 7 (5 March 2009) | doi:10.1038/458007a; Published online 4 March 2009 Abstract When it comes to health care, the balance between cost and effectiveness is a difficult one to ...