Covering Health (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
In Health Affairs, Ashish K. Jha and Arnold M. Epstein have released a study in which they found a link between hospital boards that focused on quality of care and hospital quality ratings. They also found that quality isn't a top priority for most hospital boards. The researchers hope ...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Hospital patients who suffer a side effect from treatment are more likely to give high ratings to their quality of care when hospital staff are up front about what went wrong, a new study suggests.
ajc.com (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
The economic recession is continuing to take its toll on Atlanta's mayoral race -- which is forcing the candidates to search here and outside Georgia for contributions.
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
Health Blog: French news magazine Le Point has published its third annual ranking of the "best" hospitals in France. The survey raises interesting questions that...
The Philadelphia Business Journal (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
Overall patient mortality rates for the 20 conditions studied by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council for the last seven years have declined from 5.1 percent in 2002 to 4.2 percent last year, according to PHC4’s latest performance report released Thursday.
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
PLYMOUTH MEETING, Penn., Sept. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Florida Hospital Association (FHA) and the South Florida Hospital & Healthcare Association (SFHHA) today announce an agreement with the ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization (PSO) to support the Patient Safety Organization of Florida (PSOFlorida) with patient safety data collection and analysis. PSOFlorida, a component organization...
Gareth Wyn (Free subscription) | 19/07/2009
I have recollections of the occasional village fair, carnival or show from my childhood, from dressing up as one of the Indian characters from It Ain't Half Hot Mum ( and yes I did black-up the seventies in Wales were either innocent or not very PC) in the Cardigan Carnival, to helping out mam in the hospital fund raising summer fayres, to the riverside fetes of dad's home village. Yet by the mid eighties...
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