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Safety Gurus: Penalize Doctors Who Don’t Follow the Rules (October 1, 2009)
Should hospitals start penalizing doctors and nurses who fail to follow patient safety rules?
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As Easy as 1-2-3? (October 27, 2009)
As Easy as 1-2-3?
Checklists can reduce infections dramatically. The trick is getting doctors and nurses to use them.  More...

Life, Death and Money in the ICU (August 12, 2009)
Life, Death and Money in the ICU  More...

Doctor Leads Quest for Safer Ways to Care for Patients (March 9, 2010)
Dr. Peter J. Pronovost, 45, is medical director of the Quality and Safety Research Group at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, which means he leads that institution’s quest for safer ways to care for its patients. He also travels the country, advising hospitals on innovative safety measures. The Hudson Street Press has just released his book, “Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor’s Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out,” written with Eric Vohr. An edited version of a two-hour conversation follows.   More...

Secretary Sebelius Releases Inaugural Health Care “Success Story” Report (July 13, 2009)
Secretary Sebelius Releases Inaugural Health Care “Success Story” Report
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15 More Secrets the Doctors Won't Tell You + Ten More! (February 25, 2010)
This insider information from doctors, nurses and paramedics will astonish you--and could save your life.   More...

35 Secrets ER Doctors Won't Tell You (February 25, 2010)
What really goes on in the ER—and on the way there? We asked doctors, nurses, and paramedics to give us straight answers. What they revealed could save your life.  More...

Your Child Needs the Hospital? 12 Tips for Parents (US News) (June 17, 2009)
Pediatric medicine is not a downsized version of adult care  More...

Emergency-room docs offer inside scoop: How to get treated faster, better (Daily Finance) (November 29, 2009)
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Here's How to Survive Your Hospital Stay (ABC NEWS) (March 4, 2009)
Patients Can Improve the Chances of a Healthy Hospital Stay by Following a Few Simple Steps  More...

Preparing Kids—and Yourself—for Their Hospital Visit: 11 Tips (US News) (July 22, 2009)
Before a test or procedure is needed, getting kids comfortable with medicine makes all the difference  More...

Man Survives 47 Minutes in Cardiac Arrest (CBS News) (November 24, 2009)
Doctors Wouldn't Give Up on N.Y. Man, Delivering 4,500 Chest Compressions and 8 Defibrillator Shocks to Save Him  More...

The Henry Ford of Heart Surgery (November 21, 2009)
In India, a Factory Model for Hospitals Is Cutting Costs and Yielding Profits  More...

Hospital Scrubs Are a Germy, Deadly Mess ( The Wall Street Journal) (January 8, 2009)
Bacteria on doctor uniforms can kill you.  More...

Hospitals must disclose nurse staffing levels (Crains New York ) (September 17, 2009)
Gov. David Paterson signed into law a bill, bitterly opposed by medical centers, that will force the city's hospitals to disclose their nurse staffing ratios  More...

The Right to Know About Infections (Nursing Spectrum) (May 21, 2007)
The Right to Know About Infections  More...

America's Top Hospitals Cut Patient Death Rate 27% (U.S. News) (January 27, 2009)
America's Top Hospitals Cut Patient Death Rate 27%
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America's Best Hospitals Rankings: Definitions (U.S. News) (July 15, 2009)
America's Best Hospitals Rankings: Definitions  More...

Best Children's Hospitals Honor Roll (U.S. News) (June 17, 2009)
Best Children's Hospitals Honor Roll  More...

America's Best Hospitals: the 2009–10 Honor Roll (U.S. News) (July 15, 2009)
They're the best of the best—the 0.4 percent of all hospitals with high scores in 6 or more specialties  More...

Your Child Needs the Hospital? 12 Tips for Parents (U.S. News) (June 17, 2009)
Your Child Needs the Hospital? 12 Tips for Parents  More...

Tales of Triumph: The Best Children's Hospitals Take On the Tough Cases (U.S. News) (May 29, 2008)
Tales of Triumph: The Best Children's Hospitals Take On the Tough Cases  More...

Keeping Your Child Safe in the Hospital: Avoiding Medical Errors (U.S. New) (August 7, 2009)
Keeping Your Child Safe in the Hospital: Avoiding Medical Errors  More...

Nurses offer tips for surviving a hospital stay (CNN) (August 6, 2009)
Nurses offer tips for surviving a hospital stay  More...

HOSPITAL, NURSING HOME ABUSED EX-COP, SUIT SEZ (New York Daily News) (October 23, 2006)
HOSPITAL, NURSING HOME ABUSED EX-COP, SUIT SEZ  More...

What Pilots Can Teach Hospitals About Patient Safety (The New York Times) (October 31, 2006)
What Pilots Can Teach Hospitals About Patient Safety   More...

MAIMONIDES TOP HOSP IN SURVIVAL RATE (New York Daily News) (December 5, 2005)
MAIMONIDES TOP HOSP IN SURVIVAL RATE  More...

Pursuing Perfection: Report from Cincinnati Children’s on Improving Family-Centered Care for Cystic Fibrosis Patients (IHI.org) (May 21, 2007)
Pursuing Perfection: Report from Cincinnati Children’s on Improving Family-Centered Care for Cystic Fibrosis Patients
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10 Signs That You Need a New Doctor (About.com) (March 2003)
10 Signs That You Need a New Doctor  More...

Guidelines For Heart Care Show Promise (The Wall Street Journal) (April 15, 2009)
Guidelines For Heart Care Show Promise  More...

Doctors Push For More Scans In Stroke Cases (The Wall Street Journal) (April 21, 2009)
Doctors Push For More Scans In Stroke Cases  More...

Reporting of Mistakes by Hospitals Is Faulted (The New York Times) (March 9, 2009)
Reporting of Mistakes by Hospitals Is Faulted   More...

Reporting of Mistakes by Hospitals Is Faulted ()
Reporting of Mistakes by Hospitals Is Faulted

Battling Superbugs (AARP Bulletin Today) (March 2, 2009)
Battling Superbugs  More...

Lost in Translation (Advance for Nurses) (April 16, 2007)
If no one dies as a result of a medical error, is it still an error?

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Hospitals Crack Down on Deadly Infections (The Wall Street Journal) (June 26, 2007)
New Testing Allows Facilities To Quickly Identify Carriers; The Hand-Washing Problem  More...

Keeping Patients’ Details Private, Even From Kin (The New York Times) (July 3, 2007)
Keeping Patients’ Details Private, Even From Kin   More...

Daily News investigates faked records and fatal blunders at city-run hospitals (NY Daily News) (July 28, 2009)
Daily News investigates faked records and fatal blunders at city-run hospitals   More...

On National Scale, New York Hospitals Fare Poorly on Readmissions (The New York Times) (July 10, 2009)
On National Scale, New York Hospitals Fare Poorly on Readmissions   More...

Cutting Hospital Infections to cut Costs (The New York Times) (July 10, 2009)
Cutting Hospital Infections to Cut Costs  More...

Swine Flu: the Next Wave (The Wall Street Journal) (August 18, 2009)
What You Need to Know as the Virus Threatens to Spread With the Start of the School Year  More...

Cutting Repeat Hospital Trips Simple Idea, Hard to Pull Off (The Wall Street Journal) (July 28, 2009)
Cutting Repeat Hospital Trips Simple Idea, Hard to Pull Off  More...

Can a Tiny Fish Save Your Ears? (The Wall Street Journal) (August 4, 2009)
Researchers Use the Zebrafish in Efforts to Find Ways to Regenerate Hearing- Essential Cells  More...

What Your Body Is Telling You (The Wall Street Journal) (June 23, 2009)
Brittle Nails, Spider Veins and Other Seemingly Innocent Oddities Could Signal Serious Trouble- or Not   More...

Seeking a Safer Surgery (The Wall Street Journal) (July 21, 2009)
Some States Crack Down on Doctors Who Perform Unregulated Outpatient Procedures  More...

AARP Reports (January 2007)
Battling the Superbug
How to squelch the spread of a dangerous pathogen

Battling the Superbug
How to squelch the spread of a dangerous pathogen



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AARP Reports (January 2007)
Dirty Hospitals




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New York Post Reports (November 1, 2006)
Beat Goes On   More...

Newsweek Reports.. (October 16, 2006)
Fixing Americas Hospitals

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New York Magazine Best Hospitals 2006 (November 2006)
Top Ten Hospitals by Field  More...

New York Magazine Report (November 2006)
Best Hospitals 2006  More...

New York Post Reports (11/13/2006)
SKINNY ON FAT OPS AT N.Y. HOSPS
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USA Today Reports (11/13/2006)
Hospitals Too Slow on Heart Attacks  More...

2 infants die after getting adult doses of drug (9/18/2006)
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Death after two-hour ER wait ruled homicide (9/15/2006)
As reported by CNN.com  More...

Readers Digest Reports (August 2006)
How Doctors Gamble With Your Life

Millions of medical mistakes happen in the lab. Here's how to protect yourself.

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Time Magazine Reports (Thursday, May 1, 2006)
Q: What Scares Doctors? A: Being the Patient
What Insiders Know About Our Health-Care System That the Rest of Us Need to Learn
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The Borough Park Jewish Community Council Reports (Monday, March 6, 2006)
Effecting Change - Va’ad L’Tzorchei Refuah Works With Hospital Administration
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