Hospital-acquired cases of pneumonia and sepsis could cost more than $8 billion in increased health costs — and 48,000 patient deaths — annually.
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It may have finally slowed down, but there’s no debating that the H1N1 virus took a heavy toll on the American health care system.
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Can doctors be held responsible for the actions of a mentally ill patient they treated four months earlier? A new court case aims to find out.
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The American Society for Radiation Oncology issued a six-point plan for reducing errors related to the use of radiation.
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Could your hospital keep running in the most dire of circumstances, such as 10 feet of floodwater in your city? Several lawsuits are claiming it should.
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A recent ruling by the Montana Supreme Court was seen as a win for proponents of physician-assisted suicide. But it stopped short of declaring the practice a right.
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No one knows how — or when — a piece of metal ended up in the brain of a four-year-old. But two doctors at Children’s Hospital Boston were just found responsible as part of a $15 million verdict.
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No one likes to talk about it, but disruptive behavior and interpersonal drama in hospitals and medical practices is putting patients at risk.
Here’s the latest data on the 10 most frequently reported sentinel events as tracked by JCAHO.
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