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From medical device development to patient-doctor discussions, the U.S. healthcare system could be improved by embracing much more openness. Politicians and regulators grapple over laws to protect patients and insure [...]

Paramedics in the Denver area will be administering an experimental blood substitute to patients who meet certain criteria under an unusual research protocol that allows patients to be recruited without [...]

National push for surgical safety checklist under way Use of checklist removes reliance on memory If flight crews have to do it before takeoff, why shouldn't surgical teams do it [...]

Patient pathways provide details on what to expect Families learn what they must for safe discharge At Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC, families are given a patient pathway [...]

Child care deficits could lead to preventable adverse outcomes There are deficits in delivery of indicated care to children that are similar in magnitude to those that have been reported [...]

Enhance employee satisfaction to improve family care and quality Massages, celebrations, education are among strategies Hospice employees and managers have probably felt at times that when staff morale is low, [...]

Patient-centered care management saves money Provides contact for people with late-stage illness Patients with life-limiting conditions who received patient-centered management had dramatically reduced utilization and cost of care compared to [...]

Study: Quality improving at a modest pace Greatest gain seen in patient safety measures The quality of U.S. health care continued to improve in 2005, according to The 2005 National [...]

New studies examine the impact of performance measures Do comparisons, financial incentives really impact quality? With ever-increasing data collection burdens for performance measures and a growing emphasis on linking this [...]

Studies show pain disparity among minorities Research on minorities examined An African-American patient is more likely to endure disease-related pain than his or her white counterpart. Experts in end-of-life care [...]

Study confirms importance of hands-on patient care Pharmacists on rounding teams reduce preventable ADEs by 78% A study published in 1999 showed that having a pharmacist on a physician rounding [...]

Study says wrong-patient procedures underreported: JCAHO gets involved Agency requires compliance with new patient safety goals by Jan. 1 What do the Challenger space shuttle disaster, Chernobyl nuclear reactor explosion, [...]

Patient Safety Alert Study targets errors in ambulatory setting Seeking to close a cavernous information gap, The Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Practice and Primary Care in [...]

Patient Safety Alert Study targets errors in ambulatory setting Seeking to close a cavernous information gap, The Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Practice and Primary Care in [...]

Study shows variable quality of care by HMOs A review of a series of studies conducted between 1993 and 1997 shows that the quality of care provided by managed care [...]

The quality of U.S. health care continued to improve in 2005, according to The 2005 National Healthcare Quality Report' from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Agency for [...]

Key Points * Gaining buy-in of intensive care unit nurses was critical to the success of the initiative. * Complex diabetes treatment issues required leaving some decisions to bedside nurses. [...]

Synopsis: Zoonotic transmission resulting from exposure to infected cats was responsible for an epidemic of 178 human cases of sporotrichosis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 1998 to 2001. Cats [...]

Recent studies in intensive care units (1) (ICU) have found that critical care specialists often try to base decisions about withdrawal of advanced life support measures based on their perception [...]

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO INVESTIGATE the ability of the visual analog scale (VAS) to differentiate between patients with acute painful conditions desiring pain medication and those not [...]

IF YOU ARE DEALING WITH A PACKED EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT (ED) and waiting room, and wondering why all the changes in the function of your department have not produce better throughput, [...]

A study in Annals of Internal Medicine indicates that providing high-quality care based on established quality indicators can significantly increase survival for elderly patients. The authors of 'Quality of Care [...]