A recent study by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality found that weekend hospital care is not as prompt as weekday care, due largely to lower hospital staffing levels and services availability on the weekends, according to an AHRQ…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
Nearly 58 percent of the surgeries performed in hospitals during 2007 were done as outpatient procedures, according to a recent statistical brief from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Around 175 nurses from across Florida rallied in Tallahassee to ask state lawmakers to base nurse-to-patient ratios on patient acuity, according to a report in the St. Petersburg Times.
A review by Johns Hopkins researchers recently published in the journal Critical Care, says although it's clear that use of aviation-like safety checklists based on scientific evidence can work and that more hospitals should use them to help prevent errors…
Higher copayments, which are supposed to make patients think twice before ordering unnecessary care, may also be stopping them from getting the care they need, according to a research study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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California has fined 13 hospitals for medical errors that caused or were likely to have caused serious injury or death to patients in 2008 and 2009, according to a release from the California Department of Public Health.
Anesthesiologists at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., have developed a simple, but highly effective patient surveillance system that has decreased the number of rescue calls and ICU transfers in postsurgical patients, according to a news release from the American…
Anesthesiologists at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., have developed a simple, but highly effective patient surveillance system that has decreased the number of rescue calls and ICU transfers in postsurgical patients, according to a news release from the American…
The emergency department is one of the most critical departments within a hospital because a hospital's overall perception is largely dependent of the success or failure of its ED, says Quint Studer, founder of the Studer Group. As recent media…
One example of the Cleveland Clinic's increasing use of digital technology is the electronic reminders it sends to anesthesiologists to carry out a patient safety task, according to Marc Harrison, MD, chief medical operations officer at the clinic.