The first national guidelines telling doctors, nurses and others how to inform patients they have suffered harm while receiving medical treatment are to be released Tuesday, though there is a sticking ...
The American Medical Association has outlined five key responsibilities physicians should adopt when providing care for patients recently discharged from the hospital. The recommendations listed in ...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Academy of Ophthalmology agrees with important patient safety guidelines recommended in a joint report issued by the three federal agencies that ...
An Alberta-based patient safety campaign is urging hospitals across the country to change their procedures to prevent medical errors that kill an estimated 24,000 people in Canada every year. The ...
Medical mistakes are a persistent blight on the U.S. health-care system. Although the United States spends more per capita on health care than any other country in the world, as many as 98,000 ...
The discussion and research underscore the potential advantages of vascular access services teams (VASTs) for assessment, insertion, management, complications reduction, and staff education. Vascular ...
WESTPORT, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Standing Stone, Inc., an industry leader in disease management applications, is pleased to announce the addition of inpatient anticoagulation facilities to its ...
A pair of health IT experts has proposed a framework for national patient safety guidelines that the industry could apply to electronic health records (EHR) systems. Their article appears in the New ...
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