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When overcrowding forces intensive care patients to hospital outskirts, rounding providers get to them last and spend less face-to-face time.

Answering the call of healthcare professionals, the CDC has updated the surgical site infection guidelines using a process to condense thousands of studies into 170 high-quality trials.

Most female adolescents used some contraception.

Questions posed by state medical boards about physicians' mental health and substance abuse are specific and sometimes intrusive, study finds.

Many hospitals are seeking to improve their medication education at the transitions of care, particularly during the discharge process.

The proposed consolidation of the not-for-profits would create the largest health system in South Carolina.

An alternative construct for the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System would withhold a portion of payments for clinicians that they would get back based on their performance on quality metrics.

Experts say alarming results support findings from earlier studies and underscore the importance of rigorous monitoring of device maintenance schedules to minimize the risk of patient harm.   

Clinical outcomes and teamwork suffer when healthcare providers exhibit rude or uncivil behavior. Vanderbilt University Medical Center has developed a process for resolving disruptive behavior among clinicians.

A 61% increase in the number of Qualified Clinical Data Registries (QCDRs) will allow physicians to report more relevant data and may spur creation of more specialty-specific quality measures going forward.