Americans receive only about half of the recommended care they should receive. Adopting quality improvement strategies, reducing racial and ethnic disparities in care, and changing how care is delivered at the local level can improve the care all Americans receive.
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April 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The authors performed a structured literature review to enhance understanding of factors that both impede and enhance disclosure of medical errors. They performed a MEDLINE search of related articles published between 1975 and 2004, which yielded 5, ...
June 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The authors present a real-life case in which a patient's spinal cord compression was delayed to illustrate how "situational awareness" (SA) can be used to understand diagnostic errors in medicine. SA is defined as "a person's perception of the elem ...
October 1, 2005 | Story
Merchant was recruited to the University of Michigan as an assistant professor and developer of a molecular biology laboratory.
November 1, 2007 | Story
Race and ethnicity affects how patients and their physicians interact and can impact health outcomes.
May 5, 2011 | Journal Article
Stigma around depression affects Latino's interest in seeking treatment.
July 1, 2005 | Journal Article
This article assesses the effect of mandatory Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) enrollment on prenatal care use, smoking and birth weight for Medicaid-covered pregnant women.
September 30, 2008 | Story
From 2001–2005, Albert used a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program to conduct a population-based analysis of cardiovascular thrombosis.