The National Quality Forum established a new task force called Driving Value through the Next Generation of Quality.

A study published in the American Journal of Infection Control examined stethoscope cleaning and hand hygiene in an emergency department setting.

Standardizing demographic data in EHRs can help boost patient-matching, that is, linking patient records from different providers so clinicians have a more complete picture of patient health information, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Nurses often work long hours, and the attendant stress and lack of sleep can impede collaboration with other nurses and physicians and threaten patient safety.

A study published in JAMA Pediatrics shows that infants are racially segregated across neonatal intensive care units.

Reducing total antibiotic use resulted in decreased rates of hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile infection, according to a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

The U.S. will more regularly see measles outbreaks in pockets of unvaccinated individuals, health experts told STAT.

Ninety-one percent of patients say their provider made them feel safe and protected during medical visits in the past year, according to Stericycle's 2019 Patient Safety Report.

Medtronic plc (NYSE:MDT) today announced results from the landmark Worldwide Randomized Antibiotic Envelope Infection Prevention Trial (WRAP-IT), which demonstrated the TYRX(TM) Absorbable Antibacterial Envelope (TYRX envelope) reduced the risk of major infection by 40 percent, and pocket infection by 61 percent, in patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs), compared to standard-of-care pre-operative antibiotics.

Between 2016 and 2017, healthcare-associated infections decreased in the United States, according to the most recent National and State HAI Progress Report from the CDC.

Nine labor and delivery nurses at Maine Medical Center in Portland are pregnant at the same time, according to ABC affiliate WMTW.

Taliban leaders in Afghanistan are complicating efforts to end polio worldwide, Bill Gates told Reuters via phone March 25.

CMS does not adequately assess the effect of surgery volume when calculating its Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings, according to a study published in JBJS Open Access.

A mumps outbreak that started at Philadelphia-based Temple University is spreading to other areas in the region, growing to nearly 100 cases, according to a report by CBS Philly, a CBS-affiliated television station.

A 69-year-old man slashed a nurse with a knife at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens hospital March 24, according to a PIX 11 news report.

A study published in Vaccine found that anti-vaccination discourse doesn't always center on autism, and instead has four distinct themes.

Harrisonville, Mo.-based Cass Regional Medical Center is no longer at risk of losing its Medicare contract, according to The Kansas City Star.

Instagram and GoFundMe are among the latest social media companies to address anti-vaccine content online.

Flu activity remained elevated across the U.S. for the week ending March 16, according to the CDC's most recent FluView report.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is experiencing a surge in Ebola infections after several weeks of decline, reporting 55 cases in just six days, according to CIDRAP News.