Dr. Jeffrey L. Schnipper is a hospitalist and health services researcher in the Boston area. There is a “last mile” problem in health care. The United States spends billions of dollars on basic ...

Federal research funding cuts pose an “existential threat” to academic medicine that will have repercussions for patient care in the US, according to a new report from the Association of American ...

Continuous improvement specialists are challenged to solve problems for their organizations or clients. They have acquired a wide array of tools, methods, and techniques for that purpose. If ...