Background: The Veterans Health Administration, the nation's largest integrated delivery
system, launched an organizational transformation in the mid 1990s to improve the quality of its …

The 2018 update of the Canadian Stroke Best Practice Recommendations for Acute Stroke
Management, 6th edition, is a comprehensive summary of current evidence-based …

Background Since 1997, all managed-care plans administered by Medicare have reported
on quality-of-care measures from the Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS)…

BACKGROUND: Little is known about the relation between perceptions of health care
discrimination and use of health services. OBJECTIVES: To determine the prevalence of …

Importance End-of-life care costs are high and decedents often experience poor quality of
care. Numerous factors influence changes in site of death, health care transitions, and …

Although chemokines are well established to function in immunity and endothelial cell activation
and proliferation, a rapidly growing literature suggests that CXC Chemokine receptors …

Background Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) have been associated with upper
gastrointestinal haemorrhage (UGIH) but the magnitude and characteristics of this reaction …

Background Policies that increase patients' share of health care expenses decrease the use
of discretionary health services but also may reduce the use of important preventive care …

Background Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors are both potently inhibited by
anesthetics and densely expressed in the thalamus. Brain imaging shows that thalamic activity …

Background When copayments for ambulatory care are increased, elderly patients may
forgo important outpatient care, leading to increased use of hospital care. Methods We …