Johns Hopkins researchers report that implementing a checklist-style set of procedures appears to cut almost in half the number of potentially unnecessary blood culture draws in critically ill ...

What happens when a police officer and nurse have a difference of opinion over whether blood can be drawn from an unconscious patient? Mr G, a truck driver, was brought to the burn unit of a ...

This month we look at a very common issue, what happens if a physician orders blood work and a patient fails to have it done and then suffers adverse consequences? It would make sense that going for ...