After a major surgery, where a patient goes for care for postoperative complications had a big impact on how well they recovered. Returning to the same hospital where the surgery occurred allows for continuity of care and results in less chance of death.
Health care providers must follow up on potentially serious lab and radiology results, even if they are "incidental" findings that the tests weren’t intending or expecting to find.
Surgical equipment is sometimes "left behind" inside a patient after a surgery. These objects are often difficult to find and diagnose, and can sometimes cause catastrophic harm.
A new study calls into question whether using antimicrobial washcloths helps prevent Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs).
The "Standard of Care" is something a jury decides, including not only evidence of how doctors in Washington state actually practice, but also what experts for both sides say is the standard.
Blood-thinners are important medications to prevent the formations of clots that can harm and kill patients, but the use of these drugs must be weighed against the risks of dangerous bleeding that can occur while on the medications.
Modern medicine has solved many problems, but it hasn’t yet solved hospital-acquired infections. Unfortunately for people harmed by such infections, it is very difficult to bring a claim for injury.
Hand-offs – patient information communicated from one provider to another – are a source of many errors that lead to patient injury. A new study and associated solution is hoping to cut those errors and increase patient safety.
Ambulatory Surgical Centers (ASCs) are a relatively new phenomenon. While there can be some benefit to having a surgical procedure at an ASC, there are good reasons to be careful, not the least of which is that surgeons and anesthesiologists often have a strong financial interest in performing your surgery there, when it may not be the safest choice for you.
There are real and obvious hazards to patients of electronic health records (EHR).
