In a recent BMJ Open Quality journal article*, King’s College NHS Foundation Trust (London, UK) shares its path to a more unified electronic tool to document resuscitation decisions and treatment escalation plans.

Roughly 1 in 4 Florida healthcare practitioners failed to attend a mandatory two-hour continuing education course discussing proper opioid prescribing practices by the Jan. 31 deadline, the Orlando Sentinel reports.

After nodding off during an operation he was observing in the fall of 2015, Herbert Dardik, MD, who was 80 years old at the time, said hospital leadership immediately called on him to reduce his workload and undergo testing to…

A former nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., accused of inadvertently injecting a patient with a fatal medication dose has been indicted on charges of reckless homicide and impaired adult abuse, The Tennessean reports.

Hospitals keep making preventable mistakes, and patients continue to pay the ultimate price for them. Just before the new year, an update of the investigation by The Wall Street Journal found that more than 100 psychiatric hospitals hold their accreditation…

Hospital sinks stationed near toilets in patient rooms may act as reservoirs for Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-producing bacteria, according to a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control.

CMS placed Mercyhealth Hospital and Trauma Center in Janesville, Wis., on "immediate jeopardy" in 2016 after a man visited the hospital with suicidal thoughts and committed suicide the same day, reports the GazetteXtra.

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital has treated two patients with measles in the last two weeks, according to the New Haven Register.

Two patients come to a hospital. One is experiencing breathing difficulty, dizziness and incessant bleeding. The other frequently seeks medical care, has heart problems and is experiencing abdominal pain and pronounced swelling in his legs and ankles.

CMS recently announced the final Outpatient Prospective Payment System rule for fiscal year 2019, invasive cardiac diagnostic procedures join the ranks of the newest procedures to be conducted in the ambulatory surgery centers. Increasingly, procedures that were the private domain…