MedStar Health Blog

Our study, published in the Journal of Patient Safety, takes initial steps to improve communication between the patient and physician to improve diagnostic accuracy and reduce errors. This work allow...

Our research, published in Interventional Cardiology Clinics, revealed that women tend to present with coronary artery disease later in life and have worse outcomes following treatment.   Corona...

This article was written by Hellina Birru, MD, Michelle Deville, RN, and Heather Fitzhugh-Boehm, RN. Two MedStar Health teams come together to bring research opportunities to patients at home, expa...

A MedStar Health Research Institute quality and patient safety study empowers older adults to communicate health concerns to providers more clearly for less risk of diagnostic error. It’s often sai...

Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle gets credit for being the first, or perhaps just the most poetic, to suggest a connection between health and hope: “He who has health, has hope; and he who h...

MedStar Health was the first in the nation to enroll a patient in this multicenter trial of a new device to treat in-stent thrombosis. In rare cases, a stent placed in a vein can develop a blood cl...