Background Azithromycin mass drug administration (MDA) to ages 1–59 months can reduce childhood mortality; however, more ...

Background The National Heart Failure Audit gathers data on patients coded at discharge (or death) as having heart failure as ...

Patients who have comorbid COPD with heart failure and ischemic heart disease have increased health care resource use and higher mortality.

The release of a critical report by The Commonwealth Funds this week only further underscores the decrepit state of healthcare in the United States, the center of world capitalism. The study, titled ...

About The Study: The mortality gap between the U.S. and comparison countries widened in the last decade. Each year, nearly 20,000 deaths among youths ages 0 to 19 years would not have occurred had U.S ...

KFF used 2018-22 data from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics to compile maternal deaths and mortality rates. Maternal deaths are defined as deaths of women while pregnant or within 42 ...

Louisiana is in the grips of an infant mortality crisis. Babies born here are far more likely to die before their first birthday than those in other states. The death rate for Louisiana infants ...

Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said Tuesday that U.S. health care has dropped in quality but increased in expense compared to other developed ...

Working-age US adults are dying at far higher rates than their peers from high-income countries, even surpassing death rates in Central and Eastern European countries, and midlife mortality rates in ...

How can CMOs reduce hospital mortality rates at their organizations? CMOs play a crucial role in helping hospitals reduce mortality rates by overseeing initiatives and strategies aimed at improving ...