Emma Moore felt cornered. At a community health clinic in Portland, Oregon, the 29-year-old nurse practitioner said she felt overwhelmed and...Read More »
Preventing medical errors requires people to come forward when those errors are made, IHI says. Otherwise, how else will healthcare organizations...Read More »
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The conviction of former Vanderbilt nurse RaDonda Vaught for gross neglect of an impaired adult and negligent homicide will have a “chilling...Read More »
More widespread antimicrobial resistance (AMR) would not only be a patient safety nightmare, but it would put healthcare workers at risk as well,...Read More »
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Reconciliation wouldn’t be much of an issue if a patient only went to a single provider for care, or if information was transferred seamlessly....Read More »
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The antibiotics pipeline has dried up and the companies that make the bulk of antibiotics are facing multiple challenges, a new report from the ...Read More »
