Researchers identified predictors of early readmission among patients hospitalized for complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to a study published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's new healthcare-associated infection resource, Advances in the Prevention and Control of HAIs, is now available for download.

Creative Healthcare is offering free training to U.S. veterans through a "Lean for Healthcare" program scholarship, as part of the effort to help returning veterans learn new skills for employment.

Most medical residents view relationships with patients, being good at what they do and finding answers as the most rewarding parts of their jobs, according to the Medscape Residents Salary & Debt Report 2014.

With information on surgical checklist use in hospitals finally public on Hospital Compare, about 12 percent, or nearly 500 hospitals, can't definitively say whether certain checklists are being used. In addition, about 10 percent of hospitals, or around 370, don't…

A study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, examined morning handover from the overnight trainee to the daytime team and found that on-call trainees omit numerous clinically important issues when handing over.

The recent Medicaid expansions have been controversial, especially where they concern emergency department use. But what is true, and what is hype? The following are five commonly held beliefs about Medicaid patients and ED use, answered by CMS and the…

Since hand hygiene surveillance that involves direct observation can be limited by the Hawthorne effect, limiting how long observation periods last could improve the validity of hand hygiene observation, according to a study in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network reduced readmission rates to 11.8 percent in May 2014, the lowest since officials began focused initiatives to reduce readmission rates in March 2012, according to a TribLive report.

Catheter-associated urinary tract infections are a common pediatric healthcare-associated infection, but implementation of a prevention bundle can significantly reduce CAUTI rates in children, according to a study published in Pediatrics.