Stanford Medicine is marking 100 years since Emile Holman, MD, became the first academic chair of its department of surgery in 1926. Over the past century, surgery at Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford has expanded into several specialty departments, including cardiothoracic…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death in the U.S. and sits at the intersection of several pressures health systems are already managing: an aging patient population, uneven access to screening and a disease that is still most…
Younger patients’ colorectal tumors had distinct cellular and genetic characteristics when compared with older patients’ tumors, according to a study published Oct. 29 in Nature Medicine. Researchers from Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham and Cambridge, Mass.-based…
Screening can give people and families time to prepare, connect with care and improve the outlook for their long-term health. For generations, type 1 diabetes (T1D) has been diagnosed only after the body sounds an urgent alarm. A person becomes…
CMS finalized a rule Oct. 30 that tightens federal oversight of organ procurement organizations, clarifying when the agency can decertify poor performers and allowing top-performing OPOs to compete for multiple donation service areas. The agency first proposed the rule in…
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The cafeteria at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago has reopened after passing a reinspection Oct. 29, the Chicago Department of Public Health and the hospital confirmed to Becker’s. The cafeteria had its license suspended Oct. 16 for a…
States with lower breast cancer screening rates often report higher shares of breast cancers diagnosed at a regional or distant stage, according to U.S. Cancer Statistics data released in June by the CDC. The CDC classifies breast cancer stage at…
FMOL Health, a 10-hospital system based in Baton Rouge, La., measures two patient safety metrics most other hospitals do not: whether patients leave the hospital as mobile as they arrived, and whether they acquire any bloodstream infection. CMS requires hospitals…
The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network made two changes to transplant rules aimed at improving communication and safety, but critics say they may raise ethical and patient care issues, NPR reported Oct. 28. On Aug. 20, the OPTN board of…
Older adults who received two weeks of home-delivered meals post-discharge were 69% less likely to be readmitted within 14 days, a Durham, N.C.-based Duke University study found. The study, published on Sept. 19 in Journal of Hospital Medicine, analyzed data…