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Hope Emerges on Slowing Preventable Hospital Readmissions
Reports indicate that costly hospital readmissions that pose a huge challenge for the health care system can be reduced, says an article by a CQ HealthBeat editor.
read more...Combating Preventable Rehospitalizations: No Easy Task
The frequency of patients returning to hospitals soon after being discharged is a problem plaguing the American health-care system at an estimated cost of $12 billion...
read more...Why You Need to Explore Your Treatment Options
It is important to understand your condition, know how medicines make you feel, and describe what matters most to your quality of life, writes federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Director Carolyn Clancy, M.D.
read more...5 Current Trends in Patient Safety
Patient safety remains one of our great challenges and opportunities. These and other trends may finally demonstrate that safety is getting better, and not worse.
read more...Hospital quality requires leader partnership, patient engagement
Achieving the Institute of Medicine's six objectives of quality care means strong hospital leadership and collaboration with the medical staff and patients, Fierce Healthcare reports.
read more...Electronic Prescriptions Carry 12% Error Rate, Researchers Find
As many as 12 percent of the drug prescriptions sent electronically to pharmacies contain errors, a rate that matches handwritten orders for medicine from physicians, Bloomberg reports.
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