First identified by Stevens and Johnson in 1922, SJS and TEN are now recognized as disorders with a continuum of severity, from milder forms (SJS) to the most severe (TEN). SJS/TEN is associated with ...

A team of Harvard University researchers has developed what they say is an easy-to-use classification system for evaluating individual teeth that could help standardize caries assessment, simplify ...

It is well known that both scarcity of resources and expectations of efficacy influence preferences and decisions in healthcare. But how do these two factors (scarcity and expectations) affect when ...

This article explores the congruence between payer patient assignment and quality performance and the implications for incentive payments in alternative payment models. Objectives: To assess the ...

Determined to achieve meaningful use of electronic health records (EHR), hospitals and health systems will increasingly adopt clinical information technology between now and 2015. This is certainly a ...

Phase II Trial of Cisplatin, Gemcitabine, and Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy for Locally Advanced Vulvar Squamous Cell Carcinoma: NRG Oncology/GOG Study 279 Consecutive patients with head and ...

Validation studies are crucial to the establishment of an accurate patient classification system in the psychiatric setting. This paper describes and discusses a validity study done on four forensic ...

More than one-third of total knee replacements in the United States were classified as “inappropriate” using a patient classification system developed and validated in Spain, according to a study ...

Randomized Phase II Trial Evaluating Two Sequential Treatments in First Line of Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer: Results of the PANOPTIMOX-PRODIGE 35 Trial Newly diagnosed patients enrolled on the COG ...

Muscle injury classification systems for hamstring injuries have evolved to use anatomy and imaging information to aid management and prognosis. However, classification systems lack reliability and ...