A major obstacle compromising the successful application of many of the new targeted
anticancer drugs, including angiogenesis inhibitors, is the empiricism associated with …

BACKGROUND: Patient characteristics, clinical care, resource use and outcomes associated
with admission to hospital for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Canada are not …

Background: The precise scope of hospital care delivered under general internal medicine
services remains poorly quantified. The purpose of this study was to describe the …

Background Osmotic demyelination syndrome (ODS) is a rare but potentially devastating
neurologic complication of hyponatremia. The primary objective of this study was to identify the …

Objective Large clinical databases are increasingly used for research and quality
improvement. We describe an approach to data quality assessment from the General Medicine …

Background : Appropriate use criteria (AUC) have defined transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE)
indications for which there is a clear lack of benefit as rarely appropriate (rA). Objectives : …

Background Understanding the most common and costly conditions treated by inpatient
general medical services is important for implementing quality improvement, developing health …

Importance Trauma of hospitalization refers to the depersonalizing and stressful experience
of a hospital admission and is hypothesized to increase the risk of readmission after …

Background Handoff miscommunications are a leading source of medical errors. Harmful
medical errors decreased in pediatric academic hospitals following implementation of the I‐…

Background: Disability-related considerations have largely been absent from the COVID-19
response, despite evidence that people with disabilities are at elevated risk for acquiring …