What To Do If You Feel Like You’ve Been Misdiagnosed By Your Doctor. By Kristin Lesko, HuffPost. Each year, 12 million people are misdiagnosed by doctors, according to the National Academy of Medicine, which can lead to...
By Laura Dyrda, Becker’s Healthcare. Becker’s Healthcare is pleased to release the 2018 edition of its list of “100 great hospitals in America.” The hospitals included on this list have been recognized nationally for excellence in...
By Jordan Rau, KHN News. The federal government Thursday lowered a year’s worth of Medicare payments to 751 hospitals to penalize them for having the highest rates of patient injuries. More than half also were...
From the George Washington University School of Public Health. In 2013 a report in the Journal of Patient Safety stated that preventable medical errors that occur in hospitals are the third leading cause of death in...
By Trisha Torrey for About Health. If hospitals offer customer service, it is often through a staff person called a patient advocate. This person can be called upon by a patient or his family...
Hospital Ratings and Rankings. How to Use The Ratings Systems. U.S. News & World Report tries to help patients find the best hospital within a given specialty that excels at treating the most complicated patients....
From ConsumerReports.org. Condensed by APRA. It’s estimated that up to 440,000 people die prematurely in hospitals every year due to preventable medical errors. Approximately 180,000 will be Medicare patients. Hospitals are dangerous places and every patient,...
Propublica. Guided by experts, ProPublica calculated death and complication rates for surgeons performing one of eight elective procedures in Medicare, carefully adjusting for differences in patient health, age and hospital quality. Use the database in propublica.org...
From The Committee on Identifying and Preventing Medication Errors, Institute of Medicine. According to one estimate, in any given week four out of every five U.S. adults will use prescription medicines, over-the-counter (OTC) drugs, or...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. HAI Data and Statistics. PREVENTABLE MEDICAL ERRORS. Hospital acquired infections: About 650,000 patients each year develop a hospital acquired infection. So, on any given day, about one of every...