Members of SHM's Performance Measurement and Reporting Committee delve into the mortality measurement and how hospitalists’ ...

It is well established that those with lower incomes tend to have worse health outcomes. But whether this relationship extends to the most disadvantaged in society – people experiencing homelessness – ...

Commonly cited statistics on the mortality risk of pregnancy when compared to abortion in the U.S. are a vast undercount, ...

File photo: A midwife at Sisters in Birth, a Jackson, Miss., clinic that serves pregnant women, uses a hand-held doppler probe on a patient from Yazoo City to measure the heartbeat of her fetus in ...

Mortality surveillance is an important activity for capturing information on a population’s health. This retrospective surveillance analysis utilizes administrative data sources to describe active ...

Introduction Large socioeconomic disparities in healthcare utilisation and health outcomes have been well-documented in Latin ...