Patient Safety & Outcomes

Effective immediately, The Joint Commission will no longer require hospitals to provide evidence of COVID-19 vaccine compliance, the commission announced July 5.

While findings by the California Department of Health stopped short of holding a San Diego metro area hospital responsible for failing to detain a patient who died shortly after leaving the facility, the department did file a "statement of deficiencies"…

More than 60 research hospitals — including Duke, Stanford and the University of California at San Francisco — could soon lose access to organ screening and quick transportation arrangements for transplants as provider Buckeye Transplant Services is in danger of…

Older adults with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia are twice as likely to die within a month or during the year following discharge from an intensive care unit compared to patients discharged from the ICU who do not have ADRD,…

CMS will remove the perinatal care electronic clinical quality measure ePC-05 (exclusive breast milk feeding during the newborn's entire hospitalization) from the Inpatient Quality Reporting Program on Jan. 1, 2024.

The Joint Commission identified the most challenging compliance standards — those most frequently listed as "not compliant" in hospitals — in 2022, according to surveys completed from Jan. 1 through Dec. 31, 2022.

Ozempic, Mounjaro, Wegovy and other GLP-1 receptor agonists should not be taken before elective surgeries because of a possible risk of vomiting and food entering a patient's airway and lungs, the American Society of Anesthesiologists said June 29. 

People with type A blood are at greater risk of contracting COVID-19 compared to those with type O, according to research published June 27 in the journal Blood. 

Improving access to genetic testing and counseling for the more than 30 million Americans who are living with a rare disease could improve research and ultimately patient outcomes, according to a study led by Mayo Clinic researchers.

As temperatures climb to dangerous highs in areas of the Southern U.S., including in South Florida, employees from a Miami VA hospital said they are concerned about ongoing issues with the facility's air conditioning system and how the machine's faults…