When are hospitals required to implement interim Life Safety Code® measures?
A Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center study found that anesthesia providers often fail to clean their hands during surgical procedures.
A New York Times report found that patient safety is severely lacking in U.S. military hospitals, with many patient deaths going unreported.
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System administrators say quality reporting using third-party measures "will raise the bar for all of us"
Updated scores from The Leapfrog Group shows a 6.3% overall improvement in scores, and highlights Maine as one of the top states for patient care
Data integrity failures with health IT, poor care coordination, and reporting errors associated with test results top list
