ContextAccreditation requirements mandate teaching quality improvement (QI) concepts to
medical trainees, yet little is known about the effectiveness of teaching QI.ObjectivesTo …

Importance Inpatient care providers often order laboratory tests without any appreciation for
the costs of the tests. Objective To determine whether we could decrease the number of …

BACKGROUND: Medication reconciliation can prevent some adverse drug events (ADEs).
Our prospective study explored whether an easily replicable nurse‐pharmacist led …

With more than 3 million people diagnosed and more than 200,000 deaths worldwide at the
time this article was written, coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) poses an …

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to determine whether presenting providers with cost
information at the point of order entry significantly influences imaging utilization. METHODS: …

The “Things We Do for No Reason”(TWDFNR) series reviews practices which have become
common parts of hospital care but which may provide little value to our patients. Practices …

Background: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), an entity in children initially characterized by milder case …

Narrative medicine is a multidisciplinary field of inquiry and practice based on the premise
that medical care takes place in the context of stories: the stories patients tell their providers, …

Abstract: As part of a cultural competence needs assessment study at a large academic
health care system, we conducted a survey among 1,220 practicing physicians to assess their …

BACKGROUND A lack of cost‐conscious medication use is a major contributor to excessive
healthcare expenditures in the inpatient setting. Expensive medicines are often utilized …