By Dr. Joseph Mercola, February 24, 2020. STORY AT-A-GLANCE Sepsis is responsible for 1 in 5 deaths worldwide each year, killing 11 million out of 56 million people in 2017 alone. Sepsis is also one...
By Leah Binder, Forbes, Oct.17, 2019. Harvard Medical School graduate and lecturer, Stephanie Taylor, is something of an Indiana Jones of medicine. She’s a determined scientist who can’t seem to sit still. Along with a...
Coming Soon. In order to improve the information available to the public about hospitals APRA will be accepting reviews from hospital patients about their recent hospital experience and posting them online for everyone to be...
APRA offers these free medical forms including: Medical History Checklist, Pocket Travel Medical Info, Family Medical History, Medical History Chart and Medical History with Medications List for patients to download. Medical History Checklist Family Medical...
Adapted by APRA from an article by Melissa Sammy, MDLinx, November 03, 2019. Researchers have shown that nearly one-third of all FDA-approved novel therapeutics require new boxed warnings after hitting the market. With over 600 medications...
From John Hopkins Medicine. What is outpatient surgery? With improved technology and advances in anesthesia and pain control, many less invasive surgical procedures are now being performed on an outpatient, or ambulatory, basis. Common procedures… Read More...
By Trisha Torrey, for verywellhealth, updated on May 21, 2019. Just because the law says you have a right to get copies of your medical records doesn’t mean all covered entities are willing to supply them. Your doctor or...
By Sharon Orrange, MD, MPH For GoodRX.com, October 12, 2018. Millions have listened to the new podcast series, “Dr. Death,” about a surgeon with a penchant for botching procedures and leaving patients crippled—or worse, dead. And...
From the Centers for Disease Control. Clean hands can protect you from serious infections while you are a patient in a healthcare facility. What’s The Problem? Most germs that cause serious infections in healthcare are...
By Anna Medaris Miller, Contributor, U.S. News. March 30, 2015. Red blood cell transfusions are one of the most common procedure in U.S. hospitals, but nearly 60 percent globally were deemed “inappropriate” procedures by a 2011 study. Other research shows the more blood...