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Criminal prosecutions of physicians for grossly substandard care almost invariably involve the death of multiple patients revealing a pattern of gross negligence or reckless indifference to patient safety, says Ben A. Rich, JD, PhD, professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of California Davis Health Systems School of Medicine.
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The 2015 ambulatory surgery center (ASC) and hospital outpatient department (HOPD) payment proposal released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) accommodates several important requests made by ASCA and the ASC community, according to the ASC Association (ASCA).
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When prospective patients call to ask about cost, Susan Smith, CHAA, a benefit representative for patient access at Cox Medical Center Branson (MO), not only does everything in her power to give the best information she possibly can.
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Successful malpractice claims alleging failure to diagnose the post-surgical complication of peritonitis are occurring because patients are sent home without proper evaluation, according to plaintiff attorneys.
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The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) IRB launched its massive new website in July, full of information to help investigators and other IRBs in every step of protocol and policy development.
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Almost 30% of completed studies registered at ClinicalTrials.gov fail to achieve published disclosure of result (PDOR) within four years of completion, a new study found.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released new draft guidance in July to update its 1998 Informed Consent Information Sheet guidance.
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Private companies that are not in the pharmaceutical or device or biologics industries mostly are exempt from following the Common Rule and federal regulations, but there have been debates in the past two decades about whether this exemption should be changed.
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When the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) published a study about social contagion on Facebook in June 2014, reaction was fast and furious. By the end of July, one could search online for criticism of Facebooks social contagion study and produce 6.3 million links.
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With 5.7 million workers employed in hospitals, population workforce aging trends are hitting the industry hard.
