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

With increasing numbers of patients presenting at our nation’s already oversubscribed emergency departments (EDs) for mental healthcare, the Psychiatric Times recently posed a pointed question: Just ...

Systems thinking is an accepted approach for healthcare organizations to deliver better patient care. By designing programs that focus on patients as a whole person and member of the care team, as ...

Anand is a neurologist and Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Medicine. Her first book, The Mind Electric, will be out in June Within the walls of a hospital, privacy is sacred—the ...

The Hospital-at-Home (HaH) model under Medicare lets patients receive hospital-level care at home instead of a traditional, brick-and-mortar hospital. But when the waiver funding the program expired ...