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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…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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.…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

Certificate of Need Laws Leave Patients with Fewer Options

Certificate of need laws refer to a program that state legislators put in place to govern the “establishment, construction, renovation…

9 years ago

Cyberchondria: A Dangerous Trend in Self-Diagnosis

The Internet has granted us unprecedented access to information about all sorts of things, including common medical ailments. Earlier this…

9 years ago

Study Finds US Healthcare System is Remarkably Inefficient

We might like to think that healthcare in America is some of the best in the world, but that doesn’t…

9 years ago

Finding a Physician You Can Trust

When it comes to people in your life that you trust, your doctor should be on the top of that…

9 years ago