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quality of care
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Conference among many efforts to reduce diagnostic errors
Every nine minutes, someone in a U.S. hospital dies due to a medical diagnosis that was wrong or delayed. This…
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The ACA and patient satisfaction: Does it improve care?
The ACA made many changes to Medicare. One of them involves linking part of hospital pay to patient satisfaction. In…
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Report reveals the challenges behind covering patient safety
Patient safety is a critically important topic for health care journalists. Yet collecting the data needed to report on it…
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Journalists share tips for weighing hospital rankings #ahcj13
Can every hospital really be better than every other hospital at everything? Hospital public relations folks and the people who…
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24,000 Memphis patients rated their doctors
The Healthy Memphis Common Table is an effort to help patients and providers take charge of improving the city’s health.…
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Nursing blog marks anniversary of landmark report
In a two-week series of posts, the INQRI blog – the blog of the Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative – is…