Quality and Safety
NJSNA members and 351 nurses from around the country urged elected officials to repeal language blocking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from conducting gun violence research, and from looking into appropriate funding to examine the causes and effective prevention strategies for gun violence.
A new study offers surprising findings about end-of-life care.
3,300 nurses at Brigham and Women's Hospital have said they would go out on strike for 24 hours on Monday, causing the major Boston healthcare provider to bring in 700 nurses from an outside agency and ramp down patient operations to 60 percent capacity.
AMA President Andrew Gurman said the 2011 law "inserts the state into the patient-physician relationship and threatens open communication in the exam room."
Spending for practices such as chiropractic, yoga and meditation represents 9.2 percent of all out-of-pocket spending on healthcare.
In 2013, aggregate hospital costs for 35.6 million hospital stays totaled more than $381 billion.
Money will help provide hands-on training tailored to small practices, especially those that practice in historically under-resourced areas.
Seventy-four percent of primary care physicians and emergency room doctors do not feel their healthcare facility or practice is taking effective steps to address and prevent burnout, according to a new survey by healthcare-centric market intelligence firm InCrowd.
Tens of thousands of American lives could be saved each year with a concerted national effort to emulate what top military and civilian trauma centers are doing, a prestigious panel of top medical experts reported Friday.
Prodding here and pinging there, pop-up interruptions can turn into noise to be ignored instead of helpful nudges. Something similar is happening to doctors, nurses and pharmacists. When they're hit with too much information, the result can be a health hazard. The electronic patient records that the federal government has been pushing to coordinate health care and reduce mistakes come with a host of bells and whistles that may be doing the opposite.