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The postoperative care initiative at a California-based children's hospital has 11 elements.

Manufacturers Boston Scientific and Coloplast have 10 days to provide exit plan for products.

Exporting best practices from high-performing hospitals and establishing regional referral centers can level variation in hospital networks' clinical outcomes.

Complication rates are lower for white patients when compared with black patients.

More ailments are being treated with medical devices, including implants. And most of these, unlike pharmaceuticals, don't go through human...

At 3 years, combined cardiac death, target vessel-related MI, and target vessel revascularization reached 10%, 8.8%, and 8.5% to the...

For patients at high risk of postoperative delirium, interventions include medication management and family education.

For every 100 steps taken the day after surgery, up to 1,000 steps, Cedars-Sinai researchers found that patients decreased their...

The California-based health system shifted serious lung cancer surgery to five centers of excellence.

A decrease in utilization of postacute care facilities accounted for most of the reduced spending on hip and knee replacement...

In one case, a patient claims a surgeon sewed a major vein closed, causing blood to back up in his...

Prosecutors allege that the Pennsylvania-based, for-profit health system improperly unbundled claims billed to Medicare and other government payers in order...