More than 20 years ago, a report on unequal treatment by the Institute of Medicine1 made
several recommendations to address racial and ethnic health disparities; chief among them …

BACKGROUND: National-level differences in myocardial infarction (MI) quality of care
among Asian patients in the United States are unclear. We assessed the quality of MI care in …

Background The integration of precision emergency medicine (EM) into our
conceptualization of the health care system affords the opportunity to improve health care …

Zink, Obermeyer, and Pierson [(1); henceforth ZOP] have reported a valuable study of the
implications of covariate measurement error in risk-prediction model estimation. The authors …

Background The use of restraints in hospitalized patients is associated with physical and
psychological adversity for patients and staff. The minimization of restraint use is a key goal …

Background Methamphetamine-associated heart failure (MethHF) carries devastating
individual and societal consequences; however, our understanding of this condition is …

A common practice in evidence-based decision-making uses estimates of conditional
probabilities P (y| x) obtained from research studies to predict outcomes y on the basis of …

Conclusions Our study showed adequate concordance between EHR-recorded race and
ethnicity and self-reported data indicating reliability of these variables when reported in …