San Francisco-area hospitals saw medication administration accuracy improve after participating in the Integrated Nurse Leadership Program's one-year quality improvement project, according to research published in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.
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Wording in messages to encourage hand hygiene could lead to significant changes in compliance, according to research published in Psychological Science.
The family of an 88-year-old patient has alleged a medication error at Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia, Wash., caused the patient's death, according to a Bellingham Herald report.
Tom Button, director of infection prevention at Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital, has resigned, according to a Dallas Business Journal report.
The S&P Healthcare Economic Composite Index indicates that the average per capita cost of healthcare services covered by commercial insurance and Medicare programs increased a little more than 5 percent over the 12-months ending December 2011, according to a news…
Hospital producer prices remain virtually unchanged in January, with a 0.1 percent increase from December 2011, according to preliminary statistics published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
For patients living in rural areas, access to specialty care can be hard to come by. Cardiovascular, neurosurgical and orthopedic specialists may be separated by miles in rural areas. The separation makes telemedicine services vital for administering specialty care.
VA Boston Healthcare System is $163 million short in its planned spinal cord injury unit project, according to an Enterprise report.
Congress has agreed to a new bill that would temporarily extend the payroll tax cut and the sustainable growth rate for 10 months, according to a Firedoglake report.
Erlanger Health System, based in Chattanooga, Tenn., has awarded a severance package to another executive, the third such buyout since the end of last year, according to a Chattanooga Times Free Press report.