CASE STUDY: HOW TEAM TRAINING HELPED SUPPORT RURAL OBSTETRICS.

By starting at its biggest facilities and actively sharing lessons with smaller locations, one hospital group improved the quality of care throughout the organization.

Managing the critical transition from volume to value.

Experts say value-based health care delivery truly is the wave of the future. Learn what you need to do to get ready to embrace the change.

Dento-alveolar and facial injury caused by air gun pellets.

Unlabelled: Recent changes in the law concerning air gun ownership have made air guns a topical subject and many have called for even tighter restrictions. A case of accidental injury during play with an air rifle is described. It highlights the dental and soft tissue damage that can arise from an injury from such a 'toy' and outlines its subsequent management.

Is health care ready for a full menu of prices?

Examine the emerging trend of price transparency in health care and learn what some states are doing to make prices widely available on the Web.

Phenotypic differences between oral and skin fibroblasts in wound contraction and growth factor expression.

Wounds of the oral mucosa heal in an accelerated fashion with reduced scarring compared with cutaneous wounds. The differences in healing outcome between oral mucosa and skin could be because of phenotypic differences between the respective fibroblast populations. This study compared paired mucosal and dermal fibroblasts in terms of collagen gel contraction, alpha-smooth muscle actin expression (alpha-SMA), and production of the epithelial growth factors: keratinocyte growth factor (KGF) and hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor (HGF).