patient safety

The negative consequences of unnecessary surgeries include avoidable complications, increased costs of care, and opportunity costs.

The findings of the inspector general study are similar to Medicare data reported in 2010.

The watchdog group also released a report that shows patient experience in the inpatient setting has declined significantly during the...

Primary care spending, as a percentage of overall spending, varied widely among the eight health plan products examined in the...

Absent free options, people without health insurance could pay as much as several hundred dollars out-of-pocket depending on where they...

High C-section rates have persisted ? and in some states, such as Alabama and Kentucky, even grown slightly ? despite...

The travel nurse, Jacqueline Brewster, 52, of Belfry, Kentucky, was arrested by her local sheriff's this week office on undisclosed...

Paramedics are hard to come by, and a long-standing workforce shortage has been exacerbated by turnover and resignations related to...

Penn State researchers have developed an mHealth app that allows care providers and pharmacists to identify drug-drug interactions at the...

Nurses warn that the fallout will ripple through their profession, demoralizing and depleting the ranks of nurses already stretched thin...

Final guidance is available that clarifies the agency's expectations about voluntary product recalls.

Criminalizing RaDonda Vaught's 'unintentional' mistake is the 'wrong approach,' says Robyn Begley, CEO of AONL.