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The articles listed below have been chosen by the editor-in-chief as featured articles.
June 2014 Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Lyndal Bond, Shona Hilton,
Context: Scotland is the first country in the world to pass legislation introducing a minimum unit price (MUP) for alcohol in an attempt to reduce… More
June 2014 Antoine Boivin, Pascale Lehoux, Jako Burgers, Richard Grol,
Context: In the past 50 years, individual patient involvement at the clinical consultation level has received considerable attention. More recently,… More
March 2014 Edward Velasco, Tumacha Agheneza, Kerstin Denecke, Tim Eckmanns,
Context: The exchange of health information on the Internet has been heralded as an opportunity to improve public health surveillance. In a field that… More
March 2014 Corinna Sorenson, Michael Drummond,
Context: Recent debates and events have brought into question the effectiveness of existing regulatory frameworks for medical devices in the United… More
December 2013 Philip J . Van der Wees, Alan M. Zaslavsky, John Z. Ayanian,
Context: Massachusetts enacted health care reform in 2006 to expand insurance coverage and improve access to health care. The objective of our study… More
December 2013 Jacqueline H. Wolf, Kevin S. Wolf,
Context: When elderly patients face a terminal illness such as lung cancer, most are unaware that what we term in this article “the Lake Wobegon… More
September 2013 Mary Dixon-Woods, Sabi Redwood, Myles Leslie, Joel Minion, Graham P. Martin, Jamie J. Coleman,
Context: “Meaningful use” of electronic health records to improve quality of care has remained understudied. We evaluated an approach to improving… More
March 2013 Yukiko Asada, Yoko Yoshida, Alyce M. Whipp,
Context: Reporting on health disparities is fundamental for meeting the goal of reducing health disparities. One often overlooked challenge is… More
December 2012 Nancy Krieger,
Context: The idea of “population” is core to the population sciences but is rarely defined except in statistical terms. Yet who and what defines and… More
September 2012 Allan Best, Trisha Greenhalgh, Steven Lewis, Jessie E. Saul, Simon Carroll, Jennifer Bitz,
Context: An evidence base that addresses issues of complexity and context is urgently needed for large-system transformation (LST) and health care… More