Here’s what’s not in dispute: The United States spends 16 percent of its national income on health care, more than any other country in the world. In return, we get lower life expectancy than most other Western countries, uneven care, and enormous anxiety about how to pay for it.
Who’s to blame? Not the hospitals and [...]

Yet many health leaders, doctors, insurers and patients support office surgery. The setting is convenient and more private. Physicians can control the schedule and use their own staff, and they usually make more money. There’s less risk of infections spread by sick hospital patients. Because doctors charge low or no [...]

Individuals who carry antimicrobial-resistant disease-producing agents such as MRSA places patients at high risk of infection. Early identification of patients with MRSA and subsequent prevention of patient-to-patient spread through infection control measures are believed to be important interventions to control MRSA. %26quot;Experts and policy makers, nationally and internationally, recommend universal admission screening as a means [...]