A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that the nation spends billions of dollars a year on patients' return visits to the hospital, according to an article in The New York Times.
Patient Safety & Outcomes
A new study published in the Apr. 1 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association casts doubt on a hospital safety survey performed by the nonprofit Leapfrog Group, according to a report in HealthDay.
A study completed by HealthCore, a research subsidiary of WellPoint, found that around 36,000 patients enrolled in six WellPoint health plans were overtreated for back pain, according to a WellPoint news release.
The Joint Commission has marked March 8-14 as National Patient Safety Awareness Week, according to a Joint Commission news release.
In an effort to eliminate errors and to promote patient safety, Washington state hospitals have adopted new standardized systems, according to a news release from the Washington State Hospital Association.
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A study conducted by the University of Connecticut Health Center and the Massachusetts Medical Society showed that the cost of defensive medicine — tests, procedures, referrals, hospitalizations, or prescriptions ordered by physicians fearful of lawsuits — is "huge and widespread,"…
Here are the percentages of primary-care physicians who did not accept new patients listed by expected payment source, based on 2004 data from the National Ambulatory Medical Center Survey.
Here are the top 20 most common principal diagnoses among hospitalized Medicare enrollees age 65 and older in 2006, as based upon data fro 13 states with reporting on type of Medicare enrollment, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released uniform policies to prevent Medicare and its beneficiaries from paying for three so-called “never events” — serious, preventable errors, according to a CMS news release.
CMS has proposed today three national coverage determinations (NCDs) to establish uniform national policies that would prevent Medicare from paying for certain serious, preventable errors, or "never events," identified in the National Quality Forum's (NQF's) list of Serious Reportable Events:…