Language Barriers in Medicine
Providing care to patients with limited English proficiency can be risky without the use of qualified translators.
Providing care to patients with limited English proficiency can be risky without the use of qualified translators.
False-Positive test results are more common than you think.
A doctor telling you to call a lawyer due to the wrongful actions of another doctor is evidence you have a case. But it’s not the whole story.
In an increasingly complicating medical world, checklists can help surgeons and other doctors avoid missing key steps and making mistakes that can cause patients harm.
Health care entities continue to try and improve care and outcomes for patients with sepsis.
Studies show that one in four adults who have community-acquired pneumonia receive appropriate standard antibiotics but do not respond to the treatment.
The rate of surgical site infections rises when the temperature does.
A recent article in the journal Emerging Microbes & Infections reports on new technology developed by researchers at the National Institutes of Health to deal with drug-resistant infections.
Engineering experts at Johns Hopkins University are using artificial intelligence (AI) to scour the date entered into electronic medical records of hospital patients, looking for subtle trends that could signal the onset of sepsis.
Recently the Seattle Times ran an article on UW Medical School’s recent shift away from intense classroom learning for its first and second year medical