Since 2016, more than 250,000 radiology orders have been canceled at Veteran Affairs hospitals nationwide, raising questions whether VA facilities are following proper procedures for cancelling duplicate or outdated diagnostic orders, according to USA Today. 

In health care, our promise is to "first, do no harm." However, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a report in 1999, To Err is Human: Building A Safer Health System, which estimated that as many as 98,000 individuals die…

The Department of Justice will distribute almost $320 million to support individuals affected by opioid-related crimes.

Many hospital leaders and clinicians are reassessing current pain management strategies and opioid stewardship efforts amid the ongoing opioid epidemic.

Two nurses at Richland, Wash.-based Kadlec Healthplex recently experienced patient violence, leading one of them to make the hashtag #EndNurseAbuse to bring awareness to workplace violence in the healthcare setting, according to KNDU Local News.

Only 63 percent of Americans over age 60 intend to get a flu shot this season, according to survey results from Clover Health's annual Flu Shot Monitor survey.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute will provide 11 organizations with a total of $40 million in funding to train researchers on how to conduct patient-centered outcomes research.

Flu season can be a stressful time for nurses, who must treat high levels of flu patients while often covering for coworkers who are out sick.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office selected seven new members for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute's governing board.

CesareanRates.org, a program of the Maternal Safety Foundation, published state dashboards to monitor progress toward the national low-risk cesarean birth rate goal of 23.9 percent.