In this issue: Mindfulness in practice and policy

摘要

Pressures to do more clinical care and administrative work in less time can result in clinicians who are speeded up, scattered in attention, and focused on minutia rather than what matters-in a word-mindless. Mindless practice is not what patients, clinicians, or health care designers want, despite each potentially making decisions that unintentionally foster churning, ill-focused practice. Thus it is heartening that articles in this issue both highlight the need for mind-fulness and demonstrate its effectiveness.