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Learning From Error: Creating Effective Adverse Event Reports

Adverse event reports help uncover system weaknesses, making them an important part of patient safety. This microlesson provides physicians with the requirements and best practices to produce accurate and timely adverse event reports. This microlesson is part of a four-part…

Learning From Error: Applying Root Cause Analysis in Health Care

In health care settings, thorough investigations are vital for identifying design flaws and process errors. This microlesson focuses on root cause analysis (RCA), a type of investigation designed to identify the underlying causes of events. Through case studies and interactive…

Disordered Eating in Hidradenitis Suppurativa – A Systematic Review

Importance  Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic inflammatory condition characterized by painful nodules and abscesses that have a significant impact on quality of life. In addition to other psychological comorbidities, patients with HS often face body image issues and emotional distress…

Opportunities for Pragmatic Design Elements in Surgical Trials

Importance  Randomized clinical trials (RCTs), the gold standard of medical evidence, remain relatively rare in surgery. In part, this is the result of challenges that are unique to surgical trials, including surgeon concerns about lack of equipoise, slow recruitment, difficulty standardizing…

Management of Tricuspid Regurgitation

This JAMA Insights discusses the most effective management strategies for tricuspid regurgitation, including medications and surgical interventions.

Ethics Talk: Ethical and Clinical Complexities of SDOH Screening and Follow-up

This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about screening children for structural drivers of health. The featured guests are Laura Gottlieb, MD, MPH, a professor of Family Community…