Hospital Patients
US hospitals overused elective procedures and tests before pandemic, report shows. Experts say focus must return to patient safety.
Article Summary: Hospitals have unnecessarily performed too many elective procedures and tests in a study conducted among Medicare patients. By: Adrianna Rodriguez, USA Today, May 04, 2021. During the height of the pandemic, many health… Read More
Medical Error Statistics: When Healthcare Can Kill You
Medical Error Statistics: When Healthcare Can Kill You By Maria Clark, for Etactics, September 24, 2020. Responsible people don’t think twice about visiting the hospital. If we feel sick, need surgery, or have a major… Read More
New Press Ganey Report Warns That Covid-19 May Have Worsened Hospital Safety
By Leah Binder, for Forbes. Apr. 9, 2021. We should rely on hospitals as premier authorities on protecting people from health hazards like infections and injuries. After all, they hire exceptionally smart and credentialed staff… Read More
The App That Hospitals Don’t Want You to Know About
The Patient’s Hospital Safety Guide app was developed by APRA in co-operation with leading medical professionals to help patients protect themselves from being harmed by a medical error while being treated in a hospital, the… Read More
‘Ghost surgery’ and Informed Consent Fraud is Common
Is the doctor you chose the one holding the scalpel? Maybe not. You have a legal right to informed consent, but failure to adequately and properly inform the patient of who will be performing an… Read More
Tenet to Pay $1.4M to Settle Medically Unnecessary Implant Suit
By Alia Paavola, Beckers Hospital Review, February 12th, 2020. Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare and one of its hospitals in Palm Springs, Calif., will pay $1.41 million to resolve allegations that they knowingly charged Medicare for implanting unnecessary… Read More
Hospitals Can Be Sued for Battery When Patients Say ‘Stop’
By Ayla Ellison, Beckers Hospital Review, February 14th, 2020. A patient who asks a clinician to stop a procedure and it’s feasible to do so can sue for battery if medical staff continue with the treatment,… Read More
Low-rated US hospitals are deadlier due to mistakes, botched surgery, infections
By Jayne O’Donnell, USA TODAY, May 15, 2019. Patients’ risk of dying from medical mistakes, deadly infections and safety lapses have gotten much worse at the lowest ranked U.S. hospitals, underscoring Americans’ need to check… Read More
Heart Valve Infection Risk on the Rise in Hospitals
By John Commins, Healthleaders Media, September 30, 2019. New infection sources have emerged for people with heart disease, and defective or artificial heart valves. That’s according to a new study from researchers at Rutgers Robert… Read More