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

Patients Can Now Stop Medical Errors With An App

APRA Releases a Life-Saving App For Patients to Fight the 3rd Leading Cause of Death Medical errors in hospitals have increased significantly during the pandemic and their CEOs are concerned. Errors happen at all hospitals… 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

Hospitals Are Producing an ‘Epidemic of Immobility’ in Elderly Patients

By Melissa Bailey, The Washington Post, Oct. 13, 2019. > APRA Summary: Hospitals have become so overzealous in fall prevention that they are producing an “epidemic of immobility.” One-third of patients 70 and older… Read More

Nurses at New Jersey Hospital Gave Benadryl to Patients to Make Them Sleep, Lighten Workload

By Madeline Farber | Fox News, Oct. 11, 2019. A nurse is suing Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, N.J., claiming she was retaliated against after reporting that some of her colleagues working the night shift gave… Read More