Striving for Efficient, Patient-centered Endoscopy

Mealtimes in nursing homes: striving for person-centered care.

Malnutrition is a common and serious problem in nursing homes. Dietary strategies need to be augmented by person-centered mealtime care practices to address this complex issue. This review will focus on literature from the past two decades on mealtime experiences and feeding assistance in nursing homes. The purpose is to examine how mealtime care practices can be made more person-centered. It w...

Towards Patient-Centered Conflicts of Interest Policy

Financial conflicts of interest exist between industry and physicians, and these relationships have the power to influence physicians’ medical practice. Transparency about conflicts matters for ensuring adequate informed consent, controlling healthcare expenditure, and encouraging physicians’ reflection on professionalism. The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the Open ...

Patient-centered research to inform patient-centered care for adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer.

The 2 studies of young adult cancer survivors highlighted in this issue of Cancer are exemplars of a body of survivorship research that has emerged since Mullan’s seminal article in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1985, which acknowledged a trajectory of survivorship that initiates at diagnosis and continues through extended phases of treatment and transitions into off-treatment survival...

Patient Centered Care Model

Patient-centered clinical trials.

We apply Bayesian decision analysis (BDA) to incorporate patient preferences in the regulatory approval process for new therapies. By assigning weights to type I and type II errors based on patient preferences, the significance level (α) and power (1-β) of a randomized clinical trial (RCT) for a new therapy can be optimized to maximize the value to current and future patients and, consequently,...