When are hospitals required to implement interim Life Safety Code® measures?
A Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center study found that anesthesia providers often fail to clean their hands during surgical procedures.
A New York Times report found that patient safety is severely lacking in U.S. military hospitals, with many patient deaths going unreported.
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System administrators say quality reporting using third-party measures "will raise the bar for all of us"
Updated scores from The Leapfrog Group shows a 6.3% overall improvement in scores, and highlights Maine as one of the top states for patient care
Some argue that the AHRQ survey doesn't paint the full picture
