Patient Safety

Electronic health records may represent the future of medicine, but as of now, the technology is still going through some serious growing pains...Read More »

In July, doctors at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) performed the first hand transplant on a child. The 10-hour surgery,...Read More »

After decades of discussion, the use of restraints and seclusion in healthcare is still a hot topic. Read More »

Electronic health records (EHR) may represent the future of medicine, but as of now, the technology is still going through some serious growing...Read More »

How much of an impact does email have on patient health? According to a new Kaiser Permanente study published in The American Journal of...Read More »

The Florida Hospital Association (FHA) recently reported on the success of the largest hospital quality improvement project in Florida history.Read More »

The ability of a hospital or health system to deliver quality clinical, financial, and operational outcomes is highly contingent upon the...Read More »

A study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association found that do-not-resuscitate (DNR) are not factored out of quality...Read More »

Prescription opioid sales have increased 300% since 1999 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with nearly 2 million...Read More »

More cases of a dangerous strain of Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) have been reported in the U.S. the Centers for Disease Control...Read More »