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Patient surveys are redefining "quality" health care—and increasingly determining which hospitals are named the best of the ...

Despite progress on patient safety since the publication of the Institute of Medicine’s 1999 report, To Err Is Human, significant problems remain. Human factors and systems engineering (HF/SE) has ...

This is the first in a series of articles that focuses on your rights as a patient—both inside the hospital and out. First up, we explore the “Patient’s Bill of Rights” (yes, that’s a thing!). If ...

Universal patient identifiers—unique IDs for every individual in the US—would improve the accuracy, efficiency, and safety of health care. But a ban on the use of federal funding to develop them is ...

Mayo Clinic, one of the world’s most well-known hospital systems, is using AI in hopes of improving patient care and, ...

State regulators faulted two hospitals in Southern California for medication errors that put patients at risk, including an elderly patient who suffered a brain bleed after receiving repeated doses of ...

R.P. Sowers invited the cream of Richmond’s medical community to that first open house. It was 1981, the night before the doors would open at his urgent-care clinic on the outskirts of town, just ...