A central part of quality management involves tracking, identifying and managing changes that occur in a system or process; these are variations. When changes are planned and executed well, the ...

Healthcare providers are already challenged with managing costs and utilization in the wake of declining reimbursement rates, a payment evolution and new competitive entrants pecking away at their ...

In this review, we will first describe important factors influencing outcomes of surgical prostate cancer treatment. Although some of these are immutable (e.g., age, baseline function), others may ...

Reliance on blunt quality metrics that do not reflect important dimensions of care; Limited access to data on what occurs during prenatal care; and Empirical challenges to evaluating the impact of ...

In recent years, GWAS have greatly extended our knowledge of genetic loci associated with human disease risk and other phenotypes. The output of these studies is a series of SNPs ("GWAS SNPs") ...

Number of prescription medications and overall survival in veterans with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2024 ASCO Genitourinary Cancers ...

Battilana, Julie, Tina Dacin, Johanna Mair, and Christian Seelos. "The Embeddedness of Social Entrepreneurship: Understanding Variation across Geographic Communities." Paper presented at the European ...