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May 19, 2025Our study, published in Health Services Research, shows that team-based care can help reduce visits among patients who often come to the emergency department. Terms such as “frequent flyer” or...
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October 31, 2017By MedStar Health Research Institute
A MedStar study comparing the load-to-failure and stiffness associated with differing surgical techniques in the repair of elbow fractures was published in The Journal of Hand Surgery. In “Fixation of...
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October 24, 2017More than 16 million — or nearly 7 percent — of American adults experience at least one major depressive episode in a given year. And numerous studies have shown that the rates of depression among hos...
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October 18, 2017by Kelly Smith, PhD As a health services research, I often thought of the patients I worked with as a means to an end – as subjects in my research helping me to achieve greatness. As I wor...
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October 16, 2017
Women who have a mastectomy often are concerned with how their breast will look and feel after reconstructive surgery. About 80 percent of women choose to get a breast implant after having breas...
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October 05, 2017Left Image: The target from an MRI is merged with an ultrasound image for targeting. Right Image: The biopsy locations are captured by the MRI-Ultrasound fusion technology. Ideally, doctors would catc...
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October 04, 2017By Anne Gunderson, Ed.D, MS, GNP In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report that estimated 44,000 to 98,000 people were dying each year in hospitals as a result of medical errors. Even...
