Sequestration is a dirty word for many hospitals. The automatic, 2 percent spending cuts to hospitals' reimbursement from the federal government — required by the Budget Control Act of 2011 — put additional pressure on hospitals' already tight margins. Reduced…

Here are 10 findings related to the connection between healthcare quality and cost from the past month, beginning with the most recent.

Nurse job satisfaction is strongly tied to positive patient outcomes, according to the American Nurses Association National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators.

Chicago-based Northwestern Memorial HealthCare has closed its affiliation agreement with Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, the primary faculty practice for Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, effective Sept. 1.

More than a third of emergency medicine residents who had a needlestick injury did not report it to the employee health department, according to a study in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

Knoxville, Tenn.-based TeamHealth announced the appointment of Aryeh Shander, MD, as director of research for TeamHealth Anesthesia.

A large-scale, catheter-associated urinary tract infection reduction project has five key elements, according to a report in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

Robotic surgery-related complications are underreported, according to a study by Johns Hopkins researchers published in the Journal for Healthcare Quality.

A culture shift in healthcare is needed to improve healthcare workplace safety, according to a commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

About 14 million Americans will gain insurance from Medicaid expansion and the insurance exchanges by next year — and that number is expected to grow to 34 million by 2017, according to Truven Health Analytics. The influx of new patients…