Background: Interprofessional collaboration (IPC) is vital for high-quality patient care, and effective IPC among medical professionals, especially trainees, is crucial to supporting positive individual and team outcomes. Measuring IPC and understanding its impact on patient care remains underexplored. Understanding which IPC patterns are associated with better patient and individual outcomes will inform how to best [...]

Background: Computed tomography (CT) can provide critical information for diagnosis and is a prevalent and easy-to-use imaging test, but overtesting becomes a big probleｍ. The previous report showed 30-40% of abdominal CT scans were medically unnecessary. Therefore, head CT is a research topic in overtesting, and clinical predictive scores have been developed to avoid overtesting [...]

Background: In the US, hospitalist system has been introduced with improvement of quality and safety of care, education and value. Japan now face rapidly declining birthrate and aging population. Organ-based subspecialty system has difficulty in managing patients with multiple diseases. Patient-centered general medical care is required for inpatient management. However, in Japan, there are only [...]