PURPOSE: To develop consensus regarding clinical disease severity classification systems
for diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema that can be used around the world, and …

Quality indicators have been developed throughout Europe primarily for use in hospitals, but
also increasingly for primary care. Both development and application are important but there …

Objective To provide guidance to rheumatology providers on the management of adult
rheumatic disease in the context of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic …

Objective To provide guidance to rheumatology providers on the management of adult
rheumatic disease in the context of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic …

The concepts of appropriate and necessary care are fundamental to the creation of an
efficient and equitable health-care delivery system. Evidence of inappropriate overuse and …

Background We have little systematic information about the extent to which standard
processes involved in health care—a key element of quality—are delivered in the United …

Background. The ongoing debate on the incidence and types of iatrogenic injuries in
American hospitals has been informed primarily by the Harvard Medical Practice Study …

Although glucocorticoids may effectively be used in the management of many inflammatory
conditions, their use is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Osteoporosis, with …

Background: Although there is debate about the appropriate place of guidelines in clinical
practice, guidelines can be seen as one way of assisting clinicians in decision-making …

Objective Results from structural neuroimaging studies of obsessive-compulsive disorder
(OCD) have been only partially consistent. The authors sought to assess regional gray and …