We searched for studies that compared care delivered by a nurse instead of a doctor in hospital settings. We included studies that examined patient outcomes (death, patient safety events, clinical ...

Sleep and rest are crucial to achieve positive clinical outcomes in the inpatient setting. Hospitals can be a poor environment for patient sleep and rest. Hospital wards are often noisy, and patients ...

Factors from COVID-19 to consumer preferences are driving healthcare out of traditional physicians’ offices and hospital settings and into alternate sites of care, including outpatient, virtual and ...

Payers are increasingly issuing policies that push patients outside of hospital settings, according to Laren Tan, MD, chair of Loma Linda (Calif.) University Health’s department of medicine. Dr. Tan ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has approved waivers for six health systems to provide acute care at home. The hospitals include Brigham and Women's Hospital in Massachusetts; Huntsman ...

Using Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles, the studied intervention reduced hospital inpatient telemetry time by 51.25% while increasing American Heart Association (AHA) guideline–based usage. Objectives: ...

WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine finds that there is no risk-free setting for giving birth, whether at home, in a birth center, or in a ...