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John Hopkins Will Share Care Guidelines With 750 U.S. Hospitals
According to an article published this week in the Baltimore Sun, the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality was recently awarded a $1...
Do Strong Malpractice Laws Improve Patient Outcomes?
Malpractice laws are designed to provide patients with a legal recourse in the event that they are harmed by a physician providing substandard care. Proponents ...
Study Finds Doctors Perform Poorly When Patients are Rude
Trips to the hospital can be stressful for patients, and sometimes that stress manifests itself as misplaced hostility towards physicians. We might like to thin...
CVS Releases Cheaper Alternative to the EpiPen
For people with severe allergies, self-administered epinephrine injectors like the EpiPen can be life-saving devices. Recently, however, the maker of the EpiPen...
NYC Hospitals Receive Poor Safety Grades in National Survey
In 2016, nonprofit patient safety organization The Leapfrog Group conducted a nationwide survey of America’s hospitals that graded their safety records based ...
Use Medicare’s Hospital Compare Tool to Your Advantage
Not all hospitals are created equal. Unfortunately, patients don’t always know which hospitals in their area have good reputations, and which ones are regarde...