Hospital Patients

By Stephanie Nebehay, for Health News. Millions of people die each year from medical errors and infections linked to health care and going into hospital is far riskier than flying, the World Health Organization said… Read More

The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit representing the nation’s largest and most influential employers and purchasers of health care, released the new spring 2019 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades. The Leapfrog Group contracted with the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute… Read More

A Public Health Threat Cloaked in a Climate of Secrecy: 162,000 dead By Matt Richtel and Andrew Jacobs, The New York Times.  The rise of Candida auris embodies a serious and growing public health threat:… Read More

By Lisa Rapaport, for Reuters Health. Hospital medication shortages are forcing clinicians to decide which patients receive needed medications and which do not. More than two-thirds of pharmacists in U.S. hospitals deal with at least… Read More

I read 1,182 emergency room bills this year. Here’s what I learned. By Sarah Kliff, for Vox. A $5,571 bill to sit in a waiting room, $238 eye drops, and a $60 ibuprofen tell the… Read More

Superbugs and Hospital-Acquired-Infections. By Trisha Torrey, verywell health. No discussion of patient safety would be complete without covering the growth of superbugs, infectious organisms that make patients sick and may even cause death. They are called superbugs because… Read More

By Erica Daniels for The National Trial Lawyers.  A patient safety study estimates that more than 400,000 American deaths are associated with preventable harm done to patients in hospital settings. According to the Journal of Patient Safety study, Evidence-based… Read More

By Deborah Gesensway, Today’s Hospitalist. Studies show that it can take as long as 20 hours to recognize when an inpatient is having a stroke Because they work at a Joint Commission-certified primary stroke center,… Read More