Four healthcare professionals, treated for the new strain of coronavirus and considered in recovery, tested positive for the virus within two weeks, according to a research letter published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Infection Control
Since 2005, Seattle Children's Hospital has faced sporadic mold outbreaks. Below is a timeline tracking key events as the hospital worked to figure out the source of the deadly mold.
Antibiotics used to treat pneumonia patients in an outpatient setting fail about one-fifth of the time, according to a study published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
As pharmaceutical companies and government researchers race to find a cure for the new strain of coronavirus, new research suggests that there are medications already on the market that may help treat the virus, dubbed COVID-19.
Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia created an algorithm that uses clinical data to more easily and accurately track sepsis cases among pediatric patients, according to a study published in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.
Advertisement
Here are the 10 most-read stories on clinical studies and research published by Becker's Hospital Review in February:
An intervention that involves four changes to processes helped Stony Brook (N.Y.) University Hospital slash its Clostridium difficile infection rates, according to a study published in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.
The death rate among those infected with the new strain of coronavirus, COVID-19, is 2.3 percent, a study of 72,314 cases shows.
The CDC identified an old humidifier as the cause of the mold outbreak at Seattle Children's Hospital that resulted in seven patient deaths, according to King 5.
Madison, Wis.-based UW Health has diagnosed 821 children with the flu this season, representing 10 times as many children as last year, reports NBC affiliate WMTV.