Medical economics

How can health care systems research improve health equity?

In the United States, health care inequities based on racial and ethnic sociodemographics are pervasive and persistent. Research has shown the systems that deliver health care have both contributed to and maintain these disparities.

Medical research

New tool assesses role of 'embeddedness' in learning health systems

Learning health systems (LHS) is a multidisciplinary research field that seeks to improve clinical decision-making, promote personalized medicine, and identify best practices to optimize patient outcomes. By creating a feedback ...

Other

RARE-Bestpractices: Researching rare diseases

Clinical research needs to optimise its agenda by taking into consideration both patients' and clinicians' needs and interests. This is the goal of a four-year project funded by the EU's Seventh Framework Programme, which ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Experts call for more clinical trials on alcohol use, liver disease

More clinical research is needed to investigate how reducing alcohol consumption in patients with alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) may slow disease progression and improve outcomes, according to an international task force ...

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