The South Carolina Maternal Morbidity and Morality Review Committee (SCMMRC) released its annual legislative brief Wednesday, ...

Revenue cycle leaders strategies from UC Davis Health and NCH Medical Group cut denials by targeting root causes and accountability.

The United States has the highest maternal mortality rates (18.6 deaths per 100,000 live births) among high-income nations, a grim statistic that reflects a major public health crisis. Maternal ...

"For litigants, the important takeaway is to play it on the side of caution, especially if you want it to be upheld on appeal ...

The Irish government has set out more details of planned legislation to enable co-operation with the UK's Omagh bombing ...

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Families of the loved ones killed and injured in a series of attacks in Nottingham by Valdo Calocane are paying emotional ...

Introduction Research indicates that older hospitalised individuals are more susceptible to hospital adverse events (AEs). Frailty is a syndrome marked by increased vulnerability, sudden and severe ...

As we saw in last week’s essay, preventable errors are unnecessary, avoidable threats to obtaining beneficial therapy. Correcting them is prohibitive in terms of financial, emotional and physical ...

This shift in cancer mortality risk has occurred because in developing countries tumors related to Western life styles (e.g. breast cancer) are accumulating in addition to poverty-linked tumors (e.g.

Improving survival and quality of life after cardiac arrest requires integrated systems of people, protocols, policies, and resources along with ongoing data acquisition and review. Such systems of ...

Background Healthcare patient safety investigations inappropriately focus on individual culpability and the target of recommendations is often on the behaviours of individuals, rather than addressing ...