(UPDATED) Individuals who leave the hospital against medical advice following PCI are more likely to be readmitted within 30 days than patients discharged home by physicians, and the most common ...

An honorable discharge does not erase reenlistment codes, separation reasons, or record errors that can quietly affect benefits, employment, and future service eligibility.

A new review of existing practice and policy, led by experts at the University of Nottingham, has highlighted the need to improve hospital doctors' understanding of how GPs operate as "expert ...

As COVID-19 cases have occurred in all 50 states, it is not surprising that infections already have been documented in correctional facilities. Incarcerated populations are at elevated risk of adverse ...

Certain factors, including mental illness, race, low income and being uninsured, were associated with a heightened risk for deciding to leave the hospital against the advice of a health care provider, ...

Background: Adverse events (AEs) are adverse outcomes caused by medical care. Several studies have indicated that a substantial number of patients experience AEs before or during hospitalization.

In this episode of PT Health Watch, PREMIUM TIMES spoke with a medical doctor, Happiness Akinde, who explained that while ...

But many organizations are falling short even though they have spent so much time running performance improvement projects and customizing their EHR. During a March webinar hosted by Becker’s Hospital ...

The Navy has confirmed that it was unable to process any of its more than 3,000 medical discharge cases for almost a week in September, adding further delays for sailors being processed out of the ...

The list of his injuries is appalling; both legs gone, broken back, brain damage so severe that he was robbed of his short-term memory and, for a time, speech. What Lance Bombardier Ben Parkinson has ...