Category: Quality

Discharging heart patients on weekends not linked to higher readmission rates, study finds

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Stanford scientists use bioinformatics to trace hospital-acquired bloodstream infections to patients’ digestive tracts

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Influential Leapfrog Group Jumps In To Rate 5,600 Surgery Centers

In the wake of a KHN/USA Today Network investigation, Leapfrog will check the safety and quality of outpatient centers.

More than half of US parents believe child can get flu from flu shot, Orlando Health survey finds

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CDC Ebola experts removed from Congo due to security threats

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Congress probes 15 largest health systems on childbirth safety

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1st UN worker contracts Ebola in Congo: 4 things to know

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Florida confirms state’s 1st pediatric flu death

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US flu activity low as 2018-19 season kicks off

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Hospital-acquired conditions dropped 21% from 2010-15

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