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Hospital inpatients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are isolated from other patients to reduce the risk of colonizing other patients or visitors, but how does an outpatient surgery program isolate a patient when there often is a shortage of space and a need to move many patients through a single area in a short time?
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There is little doubt that the budget problems and added demand on limited resources that undocumented immigrants contribute to health care institutions is real, and that institutions located closest to the border bear the greatest burden.
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The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston has long been the hospital where indigent patients including illegal immigrants sought care.
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A recent bestselling novel centers around five pivotal people the main character meets in the afterlife. But ethics researchers at The Hastings Center say there are five pivotal people that public health leaders are going to want to meet now, to prepare and protect them before an influenza pandemic.
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A Veterans Health Administration (VA) hospital's move to make its chapel religiously neutral by removing Christian symbols except during Christian services is under fire by two veterans who are considering legal action over what they say is suppression of Christians' freedom of religion.
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Many genetic tests advertised directly to consumers are "home brews" that are neither regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), nor clinically valid, according to findings by a Boston obstetrics/gynecology specialist.
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The Bioethics Resource Group (BRG), a medical ethics education organization in Charlotte, NC, voted to shut itself down in December after 22 years in which it fostered hospital ethics committees and educated clinicians on advance directives and do-not-resuscitate orders.
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Physicians pressed for time need to note whether their patients truly comprehend what they're being told and what they read about their medications; deficient health literacy is being counted as one contributor to health care disparities in some populations.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced sweeping changes to the Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) that may significantly affect your hospital's revenue.
