Nearly 1 in 5 adolescents and young adults in the U.S. — an estimated 8.2 million people — used an AI chatbot for mental health advice in 2025, according to a study published June 1 in JAMA Pediatrics. The findings…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
People are living longer, but most populations are now spending a decade or more of life in poor health, a recent study published in The Lancet Public Health found. “Progress towards healthy ageing should therefore be assessed not only by…
Female physicians working in Veterans Affairs emergency departments ordered more diagnostic tests and admitted more patients than male physicians working in the same EDs, according to a study published July 20 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Researchers analyzed EHR data from…
Emergency departments carry the highest suicide-related risk of any non-acute care setting, according to a new analysis from ECRI and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices’ Patient Safety Organization. The analysis draws on 406 incident reports submitted by PSO members…
Hospitals often cannot see the social inequities harming their sickest newborns because they rarely document key sociodemographic data, according to an American Academy of Pediatrics clinical report published July 20. The report, “Social Inequities in High-Risk Neonatal Care Delivery,” calls…
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A study found medically tailored grocery deliveries improved blood sugar control among Medicaid-insured adults with type 2 diabetes, compared with usual care. The findings, from researchers from Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, Burlington, Mass.-based Tufts University’s Food is Medicine Institute and…
HHS’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has begun to cancel funding for research related to strengthening patient safety, care delivery, clinical practice and policy, and workforce training, according to a July 16 report from AcademyHealth. AcademyHealth — a nonprofit…
Patients in U.S. hospitals were less likely to have a healthcare-associated infection in 2023 than in 2015, according to a CDC study published July 15 in The New England Journal of Medicine. On any given day in 2023, 1 in…
A Missouri review board deemed 79% of the state’s pregnancy-related deaths from 2019 to 2023 preventable, pointing to gaps in postpartum follow-up and mental healthcare. The finding comes from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services’ Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review…
In 2024, over 45,000 transplants were performed, and every 10 minutes, a patient was added to the transplant waiting list, according to a recent Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network and Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients report. “The OPTN/SRTR Annual Data…