A unit of the Health and Human Services Department set up a dashboard that aims to reduce harm to the patient and health care ...

Primary outcome To identify higher-priority potential failure modes as defined by RPNs and planning changes in clinical practice to reduce the risk of patients harm and improve safety in the process ...

These advances have come about with a price though, i.e. a risk of patient harm. This was aptly described by British paediatric nephrologist Professor Sir Dr Cyril Chantler in 1998: “Medicine ...

Healing from trauma means sharing intimate, often horrifying stories, ideally in a patient’s native language. In Mass., there ...

Health experts lamented that the widespread abuse of fertility drugs, particularly in unmonitored settings, was putting women ...

A recent study linked seed oils like sunflower, canola, and corn to increased colon cancer risk among young Americans. Analysis of tumor samples revea ...

Coffee provides a quick morning boost, but it might also protect the brain health of people with a common heart rhythm ...

Where decentralisation isn’t an option, compensation for time and recognition of the input that patients have in the process will improve.In addition. the forthcoming requirement for mandated ...

In the foot, the small joints of the toes and ankles are most likely to be affected. Obesity can increase a person's risk of foot OA. A bone fracture of the foot, also called a fractured foot, is a ...

“Half of all TBI injury patients who are going to die do so within the first 2 hours.” There are many types of head injuries that can lead to long-term disability and mortality. Age, location ...