patient safety

  

The little-known time period in emergency rooms that's particularly risky for some patients

Transitions in care provide opportunities to drop the ball

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The little-known time period in emergency rooms that's particularly risky for some patients

Transitions in care provide opportunities to drop the ball

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Are hospital and nursing home bedsores and pressure injuries avoidable?

Experts contend that the best treatment is prevention

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When you should consider getting a medical or surgical second opinion

High-pressure tactics should raise a red flag

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When nurses override medication warnings, it places patients at a higher risk

Hospital pharmacies are responsible for clearing medication orders

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Patient dies from nursing home fall despite documented high risk

Physician and nursing care should be patient-led rather than clicking boxes on a screen

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How patients can overcome healthcare bias

Like everyone else, physicians, nurses, and other providers can be misguided by implicit biases

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Man in 30s sent home from ER by nurse practitioner, dies of pulmonary embolism

Pulmonary embolism blocks a blood vessel to one or both lungs

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Texas health care informed consent is more than a rubber stamp process

Informed consent is a physician responsibility

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Woman in her 20s has stroke, brain injury after chiropractic neck manipulation

Study finds 1 in 20,000 neck manipulations by chiropractors causes vertebral artery aneurysm or dissection

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