The next time your doctor hands you your discharge plan, you may want to wear gloves. It turns out that paper—one of the surfaces in hospitals that can't be scrubbed, disinfected and sanitized—is ...

Embattled hospital chain Tenet Healthcare Corp., whose Redding Medical Center is being probed for unnecessary heart surgeries, has shaken up its top management amid a widening investigation of its ...

The Federation of American Hospitals and American Hospital Association warned their members last week of a possible scam that reminds Outliers of a bit from the late, great sitcom “Seinfeld.” An ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Statistical Methodology), Vol. 60, No. 2 (1998), pp. 295-310 (16 pages) A method for robust estimation and multiple outlier detection in time series ...