Progress depends on the willingness to reassess long-held beliefs, prioritize patient-centered outcomes and ensure that modern care reflects what the science supports.

It’s no surprise that inappropriate care decisions can negatively impact patients, but they also place a strain on the entire health care system. At a time when the demand for health care providers ...

Theresa S Betancourt and colleagues argue that implementation and systems strengthening are urgently needed to integrate mental health and psychosocial support interventions across health, education, ...

What makes an education intervention evidence-based? Over the last 20 years, that question has moved front and center as more federal and state agencies require programs to show evidence of ...

Clinical practice in the United States is marked by significant variation, leading in some cases to suboptimal quality of care and poor health outcomes. Despite the proliferation of clinical practice ...

Amid shrinking budgets, multiplying federal and state requirements for school improvement, and rapidly changing educational technology, it’s critical for education leaders to identify whether a given ...

When it comes to naming the dietary patterns offering the most protection against cancer, plant-based diets emerge as the winner for reducing the risk for several cancers sensitive to lifestyle ...

In the human resources world, I’ve observed that many leaders use their experience and intuition as decision-making guides. There’s a time and place for relying on experience and intuition, but solely ...

Detectives and scientists have a lot in common. Both collect data, develop hypotheses and test their assumptions. And both pursue evidence in the hope of a definitive finding. Science was key to the ...

The Army’s investment in technical capabilities in collecting, storing, and disseminating data has dramatically increased. Advancements in the volume (size and scope), velocity (speed of data ...