Becker’s Operating Room Clinical Quality & Infection Control finds and is provided with a wide range of downloadable tools and resources designed to help healthcare providers improve the quality of ...

April 13, 2010 (Washington, DC) — Patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) have an increased risk for complications from comorbidities, particularly during the hospital discharge process. At ...

Broken bones. Alcohol poisoning. Dehydration. Infectious disease. Bacterial infections. Heart failure. Compromised immune systems. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. The list could go on. As the ...

When ASC Durango (Colo.) tracked its PACU times and found some patients were staying longer than four hours, the surgery center concluded that one of the contributing factors was a lack of an accurate ...

In the last few years, rates of hospital readmissions have become a key indicator of care quality, and for good reason. When significant numbers of patients in post-acute care settings experience a ...

Sending discharge letters to patients as well as their GPs when they leave hospital could make a substantial difference to patient outcomes, according to a new study by University of Warwick ...

If you’ve ever been discharged from a hospital or helped a loved one through it, you know how overwhelming it can be. One moment, you’re in a hospital bed, and the next, you’re handed a pile of ...

Most hospital patients say they can remember details about their care and post-discharge instructions, but in reality their ability to recall within a day or two of leaving the hospital shows ...