News tagged with 'Patient Safety'

Improving patient safety may be a way for doctors to relieve the pressure of medical malpractice claims from injured patients, finds RAND Corporation research.

Texas nurse, Anne Mitchell was acquitted by a jury this afternoon in her whistleblower case against a doctor she claimed was threatening patient safety. She and another nurse have filed a civil suit after losing their jobs and draining their savings defending themselves.

Patient safety was highly controversial on the House floor Saturday night when members shouted "trial lawyer" to one representative. But patient safety is generally agreed to be one key to bringing down health care costs and to save at least 98,000 deaths a year, as emphasized in this AAJ campaign.

A new study in the Archives of Internal Medicine finds patients who visit their primary physician for routine blood tests or screenings are often not informed of the results. Most people tend to assume, no news is good news but that is not always the case.