People concerned about the safety of patients often compare health care to aviation. Why, they ask, can't hospitals learn from medical errors the way airlines learn from plane crashes?
Jun 7, 2023
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A new report finds research is sorely lacking on how chronic illnesses affect women, and it urges government agencies to do more to investigate how these diseases strike women differently.
Jul 12, 2024
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Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is experienced by many as a harbinger of future memory problems like Alzheimer's disease. Individuals suffering from MCI are often able to maintain independent lives, but there are special ...
Sep 10, 2013
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A survey of Colorado home health care clinicians (HHCs) revealed that 60 percent said they had not received enough information to guide patient treatment while 52 percent said patients often had unrealistic expectations of ...
Feb 25, 2019
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Results from a new study indicate that a pharmacist-led smartphone app may help safeguard against medication-related health problems in individuals who have received a kidney transplant. The study will appear in an upcoming ...
Apr 29, 2021
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The number of medication errors occurring when people go into, or leave hospital, would reduce by 40% from 1.8 million to 1.1 million if information about medicines could be shared more easily electronically, University of ...
Jun 12, 2023
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Every eight minutes, a child experiences a medication error at home. These mistakes can be life-threatening.
Oct 9, 2023
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In 2013, researchers at Boston Children's Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital launched a multi-center study comparing a work schedule that included traditional, extended work shifts for resident physicians (24 hours ...
Jun 25, 2020
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More needs to be done to improve patient safety in the outpatient setting, said the American College of Physicians (ACP) in a new policy paper released today. Patient Safety in the Office-Based Practice Setting offers a set ...
Nov 6, 2017
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(AP)—A Catholic hospital on Monday acknowledged it was "morally wrong" for its attorneys to argue in court that a fetus is not a human being under Colorado law.
Feb 4, 2013
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