AHRQ has identified 22 patient safety practices that are effective in impacting errors
March 29, 2013
An expert panel has identified 22 patient safety practices that have been shown to be implementable and have enough evidence of effectiveness to be recommended for adoption by healthcare organizations
10 Medical Errors That Can Kill You in the Hospital
March 29, 2013
More people die from medical mistakes than they do from car accidents, pneumonia, and diabetes. This article lists the 10 most common errors that can occur during your hospital stay.
Federal regulators: Beware doctors pushing medical devices
March 28, 2013
Wall Street Journal – March 26, 2013, 4:28 PM – By Russ Britt The Health and Human Services Inspector General’s office issued a fraud alert Tuesday, warning consumers and medical professionals
Are There Too Many Hospital Rankings?
March 27, 2013
Where can you go to find one list that names the “best cars”? The answer, of course, is obvious. There isn’t one. What does “best” mean — best for short
When Healthcare Makes You Sick: What surgeons leave behind costs some patients dearly
March 20, 2013
Peter Eisler, USA TODAY – March 8, 2013. More than a dozen times a day, doctors sew up patients with sponges and other supplies mistakenly left inside. The mistake costs
CRE – The New Superbug
March 13, 2013
A family of bacteria has become increasingly resistant to last-resort antibiotics during the past decade, and more hospitalized patients are getting lethal infections that, in some cases, are impossible to
Dollars for Docs Mints a Millionaire
March 11, 2013
by Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein ProPublica, March 11, 2013 – During the last four years, the 47-year-old Draud has earned more than $1 million for delivering promotional talks and consulting for
Lax Policing of Doctor and Pharmacy Conflicts Is Found in Medicare Coverage Decisions
March 6, 2013
NY Times By ROBERT PEAR March 5, WASHINGTON — Deciding which drugs will be covered by Medicare can influence huge amounts of spending, but government officials do little to police conflict of
Developmentally Disabled, Nursing Homes Can Be Dangerous Mix
March 6, 2013
By DAVE ALTIMARI, JOSH KOVNER and MATTHEW KAUFFMAN, daltimar@courant.com The Hartford Courant, March 5, 2013 Last April, Barbara Vaccaro called a local Italian restaurant and had a plate of ziti and
Medicare paid $5.1B for poor nursing home care
March 5, 2013
Feb. 28, 2013 By: GARANCE BURKE – SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Medicare paid billions in taxpayer dollars to nursing homes nationwide that were not meeting basic requirements to look after