Importance Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) affects approximately 20 million people in the US and 196 million people worldwide. AMD is a leading cause of severe vision impairment in older people and is expected to affect approximately 288 million people worldwide by…
Importance The temporal association between the occurrence of neurological diseases, many autoimmune diseases, and vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 has been topically interesting and remains hotly debated both in the medical literature and the clinic. Given the very low incidences of these events…
One Health a holistic approach to health that brings the moral status of animals and environments into consideration is understood as a “professional imperative,” a value-laden obligation that flows from the scope and objectives of professional roles. In this article,…
Importance Given the importance of rigorous development and evaluation standards needed of artificial intelligence (AI) models used in health care, nationwide accepted procedures to provide assurance that the use of AI is fair, appropriate, valid, effective, and safe are urgently needed….
Importance There is marked variability in red blood cell (RBC) transfusion during the intraoperative period. The development and implementation of existing clinical practice guidelines have been ineffective in reducing this variability. Objective To develop an internationally endorsed consensus statement about intraoperative transfusion…
Importance The effects of private equity acquisitions of US hospitals on the clinical quality of inpatient care and patient outcomes remain largely unknown. Objective To examine changes in hospital-acquired adverse events and hospitalization outcomes associated with private equity acquisitions of US hospitals….
An emerging and important goal of professional health training and education is to develop a workforce that is equipped to address patients’ social and structural determinants of health and to contribute to health equity. However, current medical education does not…
This article draws on Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed to model how health professions education can advance health equity. It first introduces 3 well-known frameworks that can be meaningfully applied as critical pedagogy: structural competency, critical race theory, and…
Lack of disability-competent health care contributes to inequitable health outcomes for the largest minoritized population in the world: persons with disabilities. Health care professionals hold implicit and explicit bias against disabled people and report receiving inadequate disability training. While disability…
Importance A series of high-profile clinical trials for patients with resectable early-stage non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have recently changed the standard of care in this setting. Specifically, studies have demonstrated statistically and clinically significant improvements in efficacy with the targeted…
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