The organization and delivery of health care in the United States is undergoing significant
social, organizational, economic, political, and cultural changes with important implications …

Calls are increasing for American health care to be organized as a learning health care
system, defined by the Institute of Medicine as a health care system “in which knowledge …

Medical errors occur and are sometimes unavoidable. Physicians generally, but not always,
have ethical and moral obligations to disclose their errors to the patient. Because common …

The Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics presents state-of-the-art information and
ready-to-use facts from the fields of measurement and statistics in an unintimidating style …

Context: Although ethics consultation is commonplace in United States (US) hospitals,
descriptive data about this health service are lacking. Objective: To describe the prevalence …

More than 3 decades since its emergence in the United States, HIV continues to spread and
disproportionately affect socially marginalized groups. Preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a …

The third edition of The Basics of Bioethics continues to provide a balanced and systematic
ethical framework to help students analyze a wide range of controversial topics in medicine …

The article advances a prospective case study design in social sciences as an alternative to
traditional post hoc case study research in deductive theory testing. It is argued that some …

Background Healthcare providers are considered the primary conduit of compassion in
healthcare. Although most healthcare providers desire to provide compassion, and patients …

Objective: This article explores the clinical, legal, and ethical problems that typically occur
when a psychotherapist serves as both a treating clinician and forensic evaluator (or expert …