An “inappropriate” encounter between a male nurse and a female psychiatric patient helped trigger the federal government’s latest threat to pull funding from a troubled Wilson County hospital, newly ...

A new study debunks the common assumption that high medical costs are a result of patients demanding more tests and treatments. Researchers analyzed more than 5000 patient-clinician visits and found ...

Credit: Getty Images. Approximately 64% of antibiotics prescribed for Black patients and 58% for Hispanic/LatinX patients were deemed inappropriate by the study authors. Despite efforts to curb the ...

All the details in our Health Safety stories come from publicly available Final Orders, Consent Orders, Orders of Suspension and other documents from the Virginia Department of Health Professionals.

The New Jersey Hospital Association announced a project at two New Jersey hospitals decreased inappropriate emergency department use by Medicaid patients by 47 percent over two and a half years. The ...

Last week, I got buzzed into a dental-affiliated office via a new security system. "What happened? Why the new system?" I asked. I was told a disgruntled patient entered the office and made racial ...

Shorter visits between patients and their primary care physicians may be associated with a higher likelihood of inappropriate prescribing, researchers have found. "Whether it's patients or whether ...

Representatives from ECMC confirm a patient from their Psychiatric Emergency Program allegedly engaged in inappropriate behavior toward another patient in the same program on Monday. The issue was ...

A case study of a patient who experienced inappropriate shocks from her defibrillator is presented in Heart Rhythm Case Reports, an official journal of the Heart Rhythm Society, published by Elsevier.