Nurses seek more hiring and better incentives for taking on more hours.

Intensive care or critical care refers to the care provided to patients whilst they are in hospital with severe illnesses or injuries that may become life threatening. Critical care usually takes ...

The limitation of resources for health care is a well-known scenario. With regard to access to specialized beds in intensive care, there is often no availability for all the people who need it. To ...

Septic shock was associated with persistent independent excess mortality over five years after hospital discharge, whereas in sepsis without shock, this was largely explained by pre-existing ...

Rounds focused on critically ill pediatric patients at the greatest risk for developing health care–associated conditions (HACs) reduced the rate of specific HACs by nearly 50% at a Colorado hospital, ...

In the neonatal intensive care unit, the most fragile patients in medicine are often the most heavily wired. Premature babies, some weighing less than a pound, can be tethered to a tangle of cables, ...

Table 2 The recommended set equivalent continuous sound pressure level (L Aeq) for hospitals as defined by the separate organisations. This retrospective, observational study was designed to evaluate ...

WakeMed says its 65-year-old hospital complex on New Bern Avenue has ICU and operating rooms that are outdated and need ...

Hospital leaders celebrated a financial turnaround while employees warned overcrowding and burnout are straining patient care ...

Before the 1930s, many of those undergoing the most complicated surgeries died soon after. One gifted surgeon made a simple but drastic change which transformed healthcare. Harvey Cushing was the most ...