Hospitals in 30 countries on four continents have significantly higher surgical site infection rates than U.S. hospitals, according to a study in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

Acute-care facilities in Florida reported five common causes of antimicrobial misuse in a study in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

Budget cuts, proposed in both the Kansas House and Senate, would lead to the discontinuation and reduction of medicine programs at University of Kansas' campuses in Wichita and Salina, according to a report by The Wichita Eagle.

Physicians, nurses and other clinicians in local practices have important leadership roles that affect the success of coordinated care delivery models, according to an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Launching and sustaining patient safety initiatives requires resolve, cooperation, communication and understanding. In short, they require multidimensional leadership.

New definitions for the surveillance of patients with mechanical ventilation may help hospitals more accurately and effectively collect data, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine.

More woman than men, between the ages of 19 and 25 years, had a usual place where they received healthcare, had been to a physician or had been to the emergency room in 2011, according to a National Center for…

Much has been made in recent months about the outbreak of Klebsiella pneumoniae1 at the National Institutes of Health. The highly resistant organism outbreak has claimed over a dozen lives, after many months of control efforts.

St. Rose Dominican Hospitals, a system with locations in Las Vegas and Henderson, Nev., is ending its contract with Emergency Medicine Physicians, the medical group that staffs its hospitals' emergency departments, effective July 15, according to a Las Vegas Sun…

Patient satisfaction scores were found to be independent of surgical quality and overall hospital employee safety culture in a recent JAMA Surgery study.