In a newly published analysis, the ECRI Institute reviewed 7,600 wrong-patient events in 181 hospitals. Roughly 9% of those errors resulted in a...Read More »
The Joint Commission released its 2017 reporting requirements for ORYX, a performance measurement and improvement initiative for which facilities...Read More »
One study by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) found that 14% of physicians have experienced a...Read More »
A new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that between 2003 and 2012, the number of hospitals hiring physicians jumped up by...Read More »
The Mayo Clinic experienced a highly publicized case of drug diversion back in 2008, where a nurse was caught stealing fentanyl from patients...Read More »
John Hopkins researchers looked at three years and 4,500 acute-care facilities worth of readmission and mortality data, finding that hospitals...Read More »
Several months after more than 60 medical experts and advocacy groups called on CMS to remove the pain treatment questions from patient surveys...Read More »
