Building a secure and privacy-preserving health data sharing framework is a topic of great
interest in the healthcare sector, but its success is subject to ensuring the privacy of user …

Background: As our population ages and the burden of chronic illness rises, there is
increasing need to implement quality metrics that measure and benchmark care of the …

Background Achieving choice is proposed as a quality marker. But little is known about what
influences preferences especially among older adults. We aimed to determine and compare …

Background: Although family caregivers provide a significant portion of health and support
services to adults with serious illness, they are often marginalized by existing healthcare …

The COVID-19 pandemic before mass vaccination can be restrained only by the limitation of
contacts between people, which makes the digital economy a key condition for survival …

With US health care costs projected to grow at an average rate of 5.5 percent per year from
2018 to 2027, or 0.8 percentage points faster than the gross domestic product, and reach …

Importance Improving the quality of cancer care is an international priority. Population-based
quality indicators (QIs) are key to this process yet remain almost exclusively used for …

Context While progress has been made in the ability to measure the quality of hospice and
specialty palliative care, there are notable gaps. A recent analysis conducted by Center for …

Background Medical oncology outpatients are a group for whom advance care planning
(ACP) activities are particularly relevant. Patient views can help prioritise areas for improving …

Background: Communication between clinicians and patients fundamentally shapes the
experience of serious illness. There is increasing recognition that health systems should …