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While most doctors might feel good about the idea of disclosing medical errors to patients, a University of Iowa researcher says fewer than half of the physicians and medical students his team surveyed actually have disclosed real medical errors.
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Researchers at a large children's hospital found that nurses who were comfortable working with dying children and their families were also nurses who reported high levels of hopefulness.
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The public health threat posed by Andrew Speaker, the Georgia lawyer who traveled to Europe and back as he learned that he not only had tuberculosis, but an extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), warranted the first federally ordered quarantine in 44 years.
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Physicians say they sometimes struggle to strike a balance in their doctor-patient relationships not too personal, not too aloof.
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Are residents in training who moonlight in emergency departments (EDs) more likely to experience clinical errors and oversights? The answer is a definite yes, say experts, and to allow them to practice unsupervised is unethical, they add.
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Compliance with Goal 2 of the National Patient Safety Goals, which calls for the improvement of effective communications among caregivers, dropped to 72% in 2006 from 76.8% in 2005.
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Home health agencies accredited by the Community Health Accreditation Program in Washington, DC, can now move away from paper forms for accreditation information to an online system.
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The cost of treating pressure ulcers is estimated at $9 billion per year and the cost for care for home health patients with pressure ulcers is 36% more than the cost of caring for home health patients without pressure ulcers.
