Patient Safety & Outcomes

In this episode we are joined by Hema Kapoor, MD, SM, D(ABMM), Senior Medical Director of Infectious Diseases/Immunology and Global Diagnostics Network, Medical Affairs at Quest Diagnostics, to discuss the challenges for healthcare providers who mainly rely on the old…

Quality patient outcomes cannot happen without safety as a foundation, Karla Miller, MD, Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare's chief patient safety officer, wrote in a March 13 blog post. The hospital operator, like many others, emphasizes patient safety as a key…

A refreshed federal report shows the healthcare industry's efforts to improve care quality is lagging, with only 44 percent of quality measures improving over the past two decades. 

More than 80 percent of nurses admit that their workload makes it difficult to implement patient safety measures, new research has found. 

Rutland (Vt.) Regional Medical Center started a new safety program for newborn babies involving taking pictures of their feet, CBS affiliate WCAX reported March 13.

Close to 25 percent of patients admitted to hospitals may experience an adverse event that could lead to complications with their condition, medication mishaps or even death, according to data from Harvard Medical School in Boston, but technology may be…

The pediatric mental health crisis is the most pressing patient safety concern in 2023, the Emergency Care Research Institute said March 13. 

After historic declines of the virus, cases of the highly infectious strain of group A Streptococcus spiked in the fall of 2022, drawing concern from experts. Now, the CDC says the flu vaccine may reduce the risk for strep A.

The omicron variant is less likely to cause long COVID-19 compared to the coronavirus's original strain, according to a Swiss study of 1,201 healthcare workers. 

The Defense Department is funding animal research to study whether radio frequency waves could cause symptoms consistent with "Havana syndrome," a mysterious illness that has afflicted hundreds of U.S. diplomats and intelligence officers, Politico reported March 9.