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Reliable information about the quality of care that hospitals provide to patients should be available to the public. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality discovered inconsistencies in hospital scores from national hospital rating systems. This makes it difficult for the average person to assess the safety of a…

Living in a country that is known for its wealth, advanced technology, and some of the best healthcare in the free world, U.S. citizens do not typically worry that they may not survive a hospital stay. A new study offers some conflicting information that alerts hospital patients to an unknown risk. According to a…

Individuals expect a certain standard of care without complications from medical error when they have to go into the hospital for an elective procedure or for emergency care. Unfortunately many individuals become seriously ill or even fatally injured as a result of. The severity of nationwide substandard hospital care spurred a federally driven effort…

A startling trend in medical malpractice has been diagnosed in a recent study published by The Journal of General Internal Medicine. The study reveals medical malpractice and physician negligence in the U.S. involving doctors making medication errors by prescribing unsafe prescription drugs to elderly patients is steadily growing. The research shows that one in…