In a survey of faculty and resident physicians at three teaching hospitals, researchers found that 92% of 338 respondents would report a hypothetical error it it resulted in major harm.
The government, nonprofit hospitals, insurers, and technology companies have been striving to get doctors and patients to embrace electronic and personal health records.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is allowing a case to go forward against an internist whose patient hit and killed a 10-year-old boy in a car crash.
As more and more patients are asked to shoulder the cost of their health care, are they willing to shell out the funds to pay for important preventive care such as mammography?
System errors—mistakes related to medication, communication, health-care-related infections, medical records, and wrong-site surgery—make up 30% of settled claims. . .
New York's medical crisis hasn't been caused by skyrocketing medical malpractice premiums, according to a report released by Public Citizen, New York Public Interest Research Group and the Center for Medical Consumers.
The National Center for Policy Analysis is calling for reform that would move malpractice cases completely out of the court system.
While overbooking patients may sound like an awful way to run a practice, researchers from the University of Colorado have found that this scheduling method could actually increase doctors' productivity and reduce the chance of idle time caused by patients who don't show up for their appointments.
When it comes to recognizing the symptoms of and risk factors for depression in women, female doctors seem to have the upper hand over their male counterparts.
