BACKGROUND: In ambulatory care settings, patients with limited English proficiency receive
lower quality of care. Limited information is available describing outcomes for inpatients. …

• The task force recommendation against screening asymptomatic adults 65 years of age
and older for cognitive impairment is based on the lack of high-quality studies evaluating the …

Purpose To compare procedure-specific checklists and a global rating scale in assessing
technical competence. Method Two trained raters used procedure-specific checklists and a …

Purpose Whether improving the efficiency of hospital care will worsen post-discharge outcomes
is unclear. We designed this study to evaluate the General Internal Medicine (GIM) Care …

Left ventricular function was compared in 15 patients who had conventional mitral valve
replacement (Group 1) and 12 patients who had replacement with preservation of chordae …

Purpose To generate an empiric, detailed, and updated view of the attending physician
preceptor role and its interface with the complex work environment. Method In 2013, the authors …

Purpose This study aimed to assess the performance of the Ebel standard-setting method
for the spring 2019 Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada internal medicine …

Methods The task force is an independent panel of clinicians and methodologists that
makes recommendations on primary and secondary prevention in primary care (www. …

… John Conly, Maria Bacchus and Jon Meddings conceived of this article, arranged for the full
evaluation data of the academic alternate relationship plans from their respective sites to be …

Objective High‐stakes assessments of doctors’ physical examination skills often employ
standardised patients (SPs) who lack physical abnormalities. Simulation technology provides …