No significant differences in patients’ clinical outcomes emerged between two dementia care interventions and between the interventions and usual patient care, a pragmatic trial reported. Caregivers ...

Healthcare professionals create care plans to help manage conditions such as pulmonary embolism. Planning may help improve outcomes and prevent future occurrences of the condition. Care plans are an ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

I’ve spent much of my clinical career working to improve the way care is provided to historically underserved and vulnerable populations—particularly older adults. An expanding body of evidence ...

Transitional care interventions are considered evidence-based, designed to ensure coordination and continuity of care when patients are transferred to different levels of care, and to prevent hospital ...

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change program funds evaluation of interventions to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in cardiovascular disease, ...

This article is the last in a four-part series about using research evidence to support nursing teams. It examines four studies that were undertaken following the two Francis inquiries into care ...

Primary care intervention refers to any instance in which a member of the primary health care team makes a change that may result in an effect on the health outcomes of a patient. In many cases, these ...