Quality and Safety
Hospitals showed improvement in key metrics like 30-day readmission rates and risk-adjusted mortality.
Dev GnanaDev was part of panel that voted to reinstate a doctor's license after sexual misconduct finding, then later sought donation from doctor's relatives.
Study should ease concerns that the health law will exacerbate the shortage of primary care providers, study author says.
Researchers estimated that in 2015 there were 263,600 cases of skin cancer that could be attributed to indoor tanning.
Investigational drug 'severely distorted' the fungus and impaired its growth, researchers say.
Dozens of hospitals, many in the Charlotte area, have banned visitors 12 years old and under.
Patients treated in these hospitals have on average, a 27.1 percent lower risk of dying than if they were treated in hospitals that did not receive the award, Healthgrades says.
Within the same hospital, some doctors are three times more likely to prescribe an opioid than other doctors, and patients treated by high-prescribing doctors are more likely to become long-term opioid users.
Survey shows physicians are held to similar or higher standards as significant others when it comes to starting, maintaining a relationship.
The incoming board includes a new chair, Ronald W. Holder Jr., and five new board members comprised of healthcare business executives from around the country.