Design is and always has been interventional and clinically relevant. Modern evidence-based designers’ lineage was prominently shaped between 1800 and 1970. This article investigates hospital designs during this period that were correlated with patients’ health outcomes and suggests how this…
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about therapeutic music and peace in health care. The featured guests are Jeanne Kisacky, PhD, medical historian; and John Meyer, human-centered…
This article draws on opinions in the AMA Code of Medical Ethics and applies them to evidence-based practice.
In epidemiology, bias is defined as systematic deviation from the truth, and it can arise at different stages of scientific investigation (eg, data collection, methodological application, and outcomes analysis). Epidemiological bias can appear as a consequence of data bias (usually…
Data quality for and about American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) people is undermined by deeply entrenched, colonial practices that have become standard in US federal data systems. This article draws on cases of maternal mortality and COVID-19 to demonstrate the ethical…
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about therapeutic music and peace in health care. The featured guests are James Downs, PhD, the Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the…
The AMA Journal of Ethics presents the 2024 Ethics Symposium: Harm Reduction and Opioid Use Disorder. Two speakers today share their insights on state of the art in clinical, public health, and forensic approaches to harm reduction. Speakers are Dr…
Historical precursors of the field we now call epidemiology date back to Hippocrates. Modern epidemiological science, however, developed as domestic and international infectious disease transmission accompanied industrialization, some nations’ economic growth, and colonial powers’ military expansion and dominance. This article…
This article describes historical and political reasons for and devastating consequences of US opioid prescribing policy since the 1990s, which has restricted opioid prescribing for pain less than for treating opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment. This article considers merits and…
Structural determinants of health frameworks must express anti-racism to be effective, but racial and ethnic inequities are widely documented, even in harm reduction programs that focus on person-centered interventions. Harm reduction strategies should express social justice and health equity, resist…
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