hospital-acquired conditions

The situation has prompted debate in the health care community about just what standards medical facilities should use before ordering...

An outbreak would demand peak performance from America's medical professionals ? especially in hospitals. But many of the facilities that...

More than two million people living in long-term care settings in the U.S. may be at heightened risk because of...

CMS this week identified 786 hospitals that will receive lower payments for a year under the Hospital-Acquired Conditions Reduction Program.

An investigation determined that some gowns made since September 2018 were produced in unapproved locations with unsanitary conditions.

A government investigation found that the New Jersey hospital's transplant team was failing to learn from surgical errors.

The Dublin, Ohio-based medical supplier said took the action after learning of unsanitary 'environmental conditions' at a plant in China.

Fewer infants colonized when parents underwent cleaning procedure.

The slow pace of hospital quality improvement frustrates patient safety advocates.

Screening patients for asymptomatic carriage of Clostridioides difficile at the time of hospital admission could help reduce infection rates, new...

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'D' and 'F' hospitals have nearly twice the risk of mortality of 'A' hospitals.