Background The opportunity to improve care by delivering decision support to clinicians at
the point of care represents one of the main incentives for implementing sophisticated clinical …

Medication reconciliation identifies and resolves unintentional discrepancies between
patients' medication lists across transitions in care. The purpose of this review is to summarize …

Objective To report the improvements achieved with clinical decision support systems and
examine the heterogeneity from pooling effects across diverse clinical settings and …

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 …

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

Background: Acute inpatient hospital admissions account for more than half of all health
care costs related to diabetes. We sought to identify the most common and costly conditions …