patient safety
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Clinical Care
More Than 100,000 Medicare Patients Had Unnecessary Surgeries in First Year of PandemicThe negative consequences of unnecessary surgeries include avoidable complications, increased costs of care, and opportunity costs.
Clinical Care
Quarter of Hospitalized Medicare Patients Experienced Harm in October 2018The findings of the inspector general study are similar to Medicare data reported in 2010.
Clinical Care
The Leapfrog Group: 33% of U.S. Hospitals Earn "A" Grade for Patient SafetyThe watchdog group also released a report that shows patient experience in the inpatient setting has declined significantly during the...
Clinical Care
Primary Care Spending Linked to Care Quality, Cost SavingsPrimary care spending, as a percentage of overall spending, varied widely among the eight health plan products examined in the...
Covid-19
Despite Losing Federal Money, California Is Still Testing Uninsured Residents for COVID — For NowAbsent free options, people without health insurance could pay as much as several hundred dollars out-of-pocket depending on where they...
Clinical Care
Persistent Problem: High C-Section Rates Plague the SouthHigh C-section rates have persisted ? and in some states, such as Alabama and Kentucky, even grown slightly ? despite...
Nursing
A Travel Nurse Leaves Fears of Hospital Drug Tampering Across Three StatesThe travel nurse, Jacqueline Brewster, 52, of Belfry, Kentucky, was arrested by her local sheriff's this week office on undisclosed...
Human Resources
The Pandemic Exacerbates the 'Paramedic Paradox' in Rural AmericaParamedics are hard to come by, and a long-standing workforce shortage has been exacerbated by turnover and resignations related to...
Innovation
New mHealth App Helps Providers ID Marijuana, CBD Interactions With Other DrugsPenn State researchers have developed an mHealth app that allows care providers and pharmacists to identify drug-drug interactions at the...
Nursing
Why nurses are raging and quitting after the RaDonda Vaught verdictNurses warn that the fallout will ripple through their profession, demoralizing and depleting the ranks of nurses already stretched thin...
Pharma
FDA Calls on Drugmakers to Be 'Recall Ready' Final guidance is available that clarifies the agency's expectations about voluntary product recalls.
Nursing
Former Nurse's Criminal Conviction Will Have a 'Chilling Effect' on HealthcareCriminalizing RaDonda Vaught's 'unintentional' mistake is the 'wrong approach,' says Robyn Begley, CEO of AONL.