Quiet ORs better for patient safety

Music at loud decibels can contribute to miscues among surgeons and nurses in the operating room, raising the risk of medical error, researchers say. Operating rooms are noisy places. There's mechanical noise from whirring drills, beeping and humming from vital sign monitors,...

Happy patients equal funding

Hospital employees are working to improve patient satisfaction and readmission rates after almost two-thirds of 132 Ohio hospitals lost Medicare dollars under federal health care programs designed to make Americans happier and healthier. Under the Patient Protection and...

Misdiagnosis is more common than drug errors or wrong-site surgery

Until it happened to him, Itzhak Brook, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Georgetown University School of Medicine, didn’t think much about the problem of misdiagnosis. That was before doctors at a Maryland hospital...