Minneapolis-based M Health Fairview is implementing a tool from I-PASS Patient Safety Institute to reduce communication breakdowns during patient handoffs.
Patient Safety & Outcomes
Patient safety advocates are urging for the creation of a "National Patient Safety Board" for the healthcare industry to better learn from and prevent medical errors, but they fear current proposals would not give such a board sufficient oversight, according…
A tool designed to collect pre-appointment health outcome information from Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center patients has just reached its millionth report after launching in 2019.
Rare brain abscesses in children sharply increased last winter amid a surge in respiratory infections, a June 2 CDC report shows.
Last year, workplace violence was the fifth most common cause of workplace injury at Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth Health, and nurses were the most affected group.
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After an unexpected fatality in a gene-editing study for an investigative Duchenne muscular dystrophy therapy, researchers attributed the death to a virus used in delivering the drug instead of CRISPR, according to a preprint published May 30 in MedRxiv.
Three people were shot outside Philadelphia-based Temple University Hospital's emergency room June 1, ABC affiliate WPVI reported.
A new analysis of more than 121 million hospital discharges found a slightly higher inpatient death rate among patients who were admitted on the weekend versus weekdays. The findings were published in the June edition of the American Journal of…
Last June, two nurses and a physician at Encino (Calif.) Hospital Medical Center were stabbed in the emergency department by a patient. A year later, nurses allege the hospital hasn't ramped up security measures enough to prevent such incidents from…
Kidney transplant recipients did not have worsened outcomes after receiving an organ from a COVID-19 positive donor, a study published May 30 in JAMA has found.