Julie Appleby, KFF Health News November 29, 2023. A hospital system in Georgia. Two medical groups in San Diego. Another in Louisville, Kentucky, and nearly one-third of Nebraska hospitals. Across the country, health care providers… Read More
A mix of flawed systems and complacency have resulted in patient harm, experts say. By Wendy Ruderman, The Philidelphia Inquirer, Nov. 15, 2023. Six years ago, a nurse at a Tennessee hospital accidentally gave a… Read More
Most patients are unaware that: 1) Hospital medical errors are the third leading cause of death, killing up to 440,000 people a year. Approximately 25,000 hospital patients are harmed every day; 2) Patient safety in… Read More
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN, January 31, 2023. Healthcare costs are climbing and Americans are struggling to pay The United States spends more on health care than any other high-income country but still has the lowest
Cook County, Ill., and Toledo, Ohio, are turning to the American Rescue Plan to wipe out residents’ medical debt. Officials in Toledo, Ohio, and other U.S. cities are finalizing plans to create programs for paying… Read More
Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. APRA has joined a coalition of 75 (and growing) organizations that are advancing the call to expeditiously form a new independent federal agency, the National Patient Safety Board (NPSB), to model… Read More
By Paula Span, Published Nov. 20, 2022, The New York Times. It’s open enrollment season again. From now through Dec. 7, about 65 million Americans are facing the annual question of which Medicare options will… Read More
By Cindy Krischer Goodman, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Nov 21, 2022. Your mammogram showed you had breast cancer but no one caught it. Your doctor botched your surgery because he himself was ill, or the hospital… Read More
Right Care Alliance -The Right Care Alliance (RCA) is a grassroots coalition of clinicians, patients, and community members organizing to make health care institutions accountable to communities and put patients, not profits, at the heart of health care. [pmpro_levels]
Studies consistently show that overtreatment is directly associated with preventable patient harm. The following lists were created by national medical specialty societies and represent specific recommendations. Each list provides information on when tests and procedures may...