patient safety

A clinical protocol is proving that it can make a positive impact in the operating room and on the bottom...

For older adults, health care facilities can be difficult to navigate and, occasionally, perilous.

The exiting president and CEO has been credited with leading the nonprofit system's financial turnaround. But he has also seen...

Care team factors associated with patient safety include teamwork, a multidisciplinary approach, knowing each other, and openness to questions from...

Downplaying its role in the opioid epidemic, Purdue Pharma has embraced a federal statistic showing it was a minor player...

Not enough physicians know that Medicare will pay for nutritional counseling.

Particularly among surgeons, cognitive decline and degraded skills raise concern over patient safety.

Researchers suggest that the NICU growth over the past three decades may be driven more by hospital competition than by...

Five surrender licenses after claims of grossly negligent overprescribing; more to come.

The findings raise questions about the effectiveness of financial incentives and the 'Choosing Wisely' campaign.

Earlier this month, the New Mexico-based system acknowledged that a May "data security incident" affected 183,000 patients.

It's the first ruling to hold a pharmaceutical company responsible for one of the worst drug epidemics in American history....