Patient Safety & Outcomes

In-hospital mortality rates decreased by 33 percent at New York City-based NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn — previously named Lutheran Medical Center — after it merged with NYU Langone Health, a Jan. 6 study published in JAMA Network Open found.

Two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine was 91 percent effective at preventing multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C, a rare but serious condition tied to COVID-19, according to the CDC's Jan. 7 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 

A new study involving nearly 4,000 people found women's menstrual cycles were slightly longer after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine compared to unvaccinated women. 

COVID-19 can be linked to noticeable hair loss, according to the American Academy of Dermatology Association.

The traditional practice of denying and defending harm events is stressful and costly for consumers, providers and health organizations; it also undermines the patient-clinician relationship.

Some hospitals are seeing more patients with incidental COVID-19 cases, or patients who were primarily admitted for other ailments and test positive. 

Women who got vaccinated against COVID-19 while pregnant do not have a greater risk of delivering their babies prematurely or having a baby who is smaller than usual, new CDC research shows. 

Months after recovering, the coronavirus may leave some people with "autoantibodies,"  or antibodies that attack healthy organs and tissues, according to findings published Dec. 30 in the Journal of Translational Medicine.

Most physicians in the U.S. are unable to determine what variant a COVID-19 patient has been infected with, which is complicating treatment decisions, The New York Times reported Jan. 3. 

As the healthcare industry enters the pandemic's third year, many leaders are working to reinvigorate staff and patient safety efforts.