Despite the pervasiveness of laboratory tests and their importance to medicine, evidence for their appropriate use often is very limited. In this article, we argue for a fundamental restructuring of ...

In the age of evidence-based medicine, evidence-informed decision making is rapidly gaining influence. However, clinical performance as well as management quality are relative concepts and thus need ...

As with many things in the healthcare industry, molecular labs are evolving at an incredible pace with advances in everything from instrumentation to service delivery and more. No longer the ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines evidence-based practice (EBP) as an interdisciplinary approach to clinical decision-making that includes the best available evidence, care context and ...

‘Evidence based medicine’ is a paradigm introduced in the 1990s in which collection of clinical data in a reproducible and unbiased way is intended to guide clinical decision-making. This paradigm has ...

Some of the things that are regularly done in the cardiac cath lab lack solid supporting evidence and probably shouldn’t be done anymore, according to a new scientific statement from the American ...

Hospital leaders agree: Evidence-based care protocols to guide how care is delivered are becoming the new norm. Putting guidelines in place can improve patient safety, streamline methods of care, ...

In “Straight Talk with Rick and Jal,” Harvard University’s Jal Mehta and I examine some of the reforms and enthusiasms that permeate education. In a field full of buzzwords and jargon, our goal is ...

For safe and standard laboratory operations in the oil and gas industry, the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has organised a three-day workshop for players in the sub-sector. The workshop, the ...