One of the most dangerous places to be in America is on an Operating Room table. The Leapfrog Group estimates that as many as 400,000 patients die every year due to preventable hospital errors. And if ...

Federal health officials are investigating allegations of dirty surgical instruments and other quality problems at the Detroit Medical Center in response to allegations made last week by physicians.

Detroit Receiving hospital stopped surveillance of most surgical site infections due to staff cuts in 2018, including for patients exposed to dirty surgical instruments, according to a report released ...

The hospital found some medical instruments had not been fully decontaminated A Merseyside hospital has admitted operating on patients with equipment that had not been sterilised. Arrowe Park Hospital ...

Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital (AGSH), a 340-bed acute-care facility located in Downers Grove, Ill., is installing a real-time location system (RTLS) that leverages active RFID and workflow software ...

Unclean medical tools in hospitals have passed infections and diseases from patient to patient, growing cases demonstrate. Above, surgical instruments in the operating theater at the Unfallkrankenhaus ...