Two UC Health emergency departments avoided more than 3,500 unnecessary head and cervical spine CT scans over 23 months with no missed injuries identified, according to a study published in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. The quality improvement campaign…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
Some 73% of medication reconciliation errors happen as patients move between care settings, patient safety organization ECRI said in a Sept. 16 report flagging care transitions as one of healthcare’s most dangerous moments. The figure comes from an ECRI analysis…
At a Sept. 16 panel at Becker’s 11th Annual IT + Revenue Cycle Conference, three health system technology leaders were asked to share an example of a project’s specific ROI. Chif Umejei, CIO at New York City-based NewYork-Presbyterian, answered with…
Almost every hospital in the United States has run a patient safety initiative in the past five years. Most have run several. High reliability training, safety huddles, event reporting refreshes, zero-harm campaigns, culture surveys, action learning collaboratives. If you are…
A surgical team at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Louis successfully separated 2-year-old twin girls who were born conjoined at the head. The procedure, performed Feb. 24-25, took more than 24 hours from prep to close and…
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Anesthesia services influence far more than the operating room. They affect surgical growth, provider relationships, operational efficiency and hospital financial performance. Hospitals across the country are reevaluating anesthesia partnerships as staffing shortages, surgical demand and financial transparency become increasingly important…
California regulators found that Los Robles Regional Medical Center used contaminated surgical instruments on patients in three procedures and did not report a related adverse event to the state as required. The findings come from a California Department of Public…
Two patients who received genetically engineered pig kidney transplants at Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham have since successfully undergone human donor kidney transplants, Cambridge, Mass.-based eGenesis said in a Sept. 3 update on its Expanded Access program. The cases mark…
The Lindsay Clancy case has shone a spotlight on maternal mental healthcare. Ms. Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her three children, The New York Times…
In 2023, nearly one in three women ages 21-29 had never received cervical cancer screening, according to a study published Aug. 27 in JAMA Network Open. Researchers from Charleston, S.C.-based Medical University of South Carolina’s Hollings Cancer Center analyzed data…