Although that drive is necessary, it can also exacerbate legal risks. Businesses in any stage of development can avoid the missteps that could create long-term liabilities which may then erase revenue ...

One of the biggest contributors to the rising costs of healthcare is avoidable visits to hospital emergency departments (EDs). In fact, up to two-thirds of the annual 27 million ED visits by privately ...

In most high-income countries around the world, the number of avoidable mortalities is going down. But in the United States, avoidable deaths have been on the rise for more than a decade, according to ...

Under outcomes-based medicine, healthcare providers are under growing pressure to demonstrate to the purchasers of care — patients, payers and employers — that they can deliver high-quality clinical ...

Avoidable mortality has increased in all US states but decreased in most high-income countries, despite the US's high healthcare spending. Systemic national issues and state-level policy decisions ...

Evidence consistently shows that human-related factors account for more than 85 per cent of fatal road accidents in Kenya. Chief among these are speeding and reckless driving—manifested through ...

We analyzed avoidable cancer mortality using set lower- and upper-bound age limits of 65 and 75 years (empirical approach), applying cancer-specific and country income group–specific ages of death ...

In the United States, the number of deaths that didn’t have to happen has risen over time. From 2009 to 2019, the average rate of avoidable deaths rose by 33 per 100,000 people across the country, ...

Most emergency department (ED) visits may not be as preventable as once thought. A new study in the International Journal for Quality in Health Care pointed out that while some estimates of "avoidable ...

Fintech company Bluevine has released its mid-year Small Business Owner Success Survey, revealing encouraging results. The survey found that 88% of owners felt they met or exceeded their business ...