Hospital leaders agree: Evidence-based care protocols to guide how care is delivered are becoming the new norm. Putting guidelines in place can improve patient safety, streamline methods of care, ...

Practicing evidence-based medicine should lead to improved patient outcomes. McCormack and Elwyn point out that the outcomes may not be lower disease rates or longer life if the patient chooses not to ...

Risant’s CEO Jaewon Ryu discusses some of the early success of bringing a set of Kaiser Permanente’s value-based care ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines evidence-based practice (EBP) as an interdisciplinary approach to clinical decision-making that includes the best available evidence, care context and ...

It’s no surprise that inappropriate care decisions can negatively impact patients, but they also place a strain on the entire health care system. At a time when the demand for health care providers ...

Clinical practice in the United States is marked by significant variation, leading in some cases to suboptimal quality of care and poor health outcomes. Despite the proliferation of clinical practice ...

In “Straight Talk with Rick and Jal,” Harvard University’s Jal Mehta and I examine some of the reforms and enthusiasms that permeate education. In a field full of buzzwords and jargon, our goal is ...

Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control reveals that 1 in 22 four-year-old children in California are on the autism spectrum, significantly surpassing the national average. This increase, ...

Mental-health clinicians and therapy clients often harbor inaccurate beliefs about evidence-based practices in psychology (EBPPs). The term “evidence-based practice” is defined by the American ...

In 2006, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton noted in their 2006 Harvard Business Review article the emergence of evidence-based medicine and suggested that practice of management too could profit ...