Quality

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has recently settled with Dennis Burke, MD, an orthopedic surgeon who was fired in 2015 for allegedly...

All practitioners—employed or not—are to be held to the same minimally defined medical staff standards for clinical care, professionalism,...

According to the Federation of State Medical Board’s biennial census, there were nearly 1 million licensed physicians in the United States in 2018...

When the medical staff asks a department chair to assign physician proctors for a newly appointed medical staff member, he or she should delegate...

Despite considerable improvements in patient safety, an unacceptable number of medical errors still occur at the local and national level. That’s...

More than 70% of heath data breaches in the past decade involved sensitive demographic or financial information, leaving 159 million people...