Patient Safety & Outcomes

Michigan Medicine has issued a new policy regarding employees' responsibility to report alleged acts of patient abuse or neglect by colleagues, the Ann Arbor-based system said April 26.

Medical errors kill up to 9,000 patients per year.  The death of Betsy Lehman, a cancer patient — and former columnist for The Boston Globe — as a result of a medical error in Boston nearly 30 years ago, has…

Orthopedic services are the most frequently cited in wrong-site surgery claims, according to an analysis of closed claims data published in the May edition of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.

The CDC has not uncovered any evidence that COVID-19 vaccines may cause tinnitus, despite anecdotal reports from thousands of people reporting the side effect, NBC News reported April 23.

Hawaii's Department of Health announced the launch of a new medication dosing system designed to enhance pediatric emergency care and create better patient outcomes, according to an April 21 news release.

Hospitals can decrease their use of antibiotics and shorten hospital stays of some pneumonia patients by switching from IV antibiotics to oral antibiotic treatments sooner, according to a study conducted by Cleveland Clinic researchers. 

Banner Health helicopters are now equipped with two bags of O-negative blood — an effort to improve outcomes for trauma patients who need to be airlifted to a hospital. 

COVID-19 infections are linked with a higher risk for Type 2 diabetes, according to a study conducted by researchers in Canada and published April 18 in JAMA.

One patient was killed and two people were injured in a golf cart accident at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist in Winston-Salem, N.C., the hospital confirmed to Becker's April 19. 

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration discovered one willful violation and two repeated violations from the Northern Arizona Veterans Affairs Health Care System in October.