Patient Safety & Outcomes

A majority of severe COVID-19 patients hospitalized at Michigan Medicine early in the pandemic experienced delirium, according to a recent study published in BMJ Open.

More than three dozen health systems, patient safety organizations and nonprofit groups are calling for the creation of a federal agency focused on reducing preventable harm.

A new social media trend is spurring people to inhale hydrogen peroxide under the illusion that it can prevent or treat COVID-19, the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America warned Sept. 21.

While experts now know more about multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children — a rare but serious immune response linked to COVID-19 infection — researchers are starting to learn more about how the condition affects adults. 

As hospitals again pause nonemergency surgeries in response to surging COVID-19 patient volumes, healthcare leaders and physicians are closely watching what effect this will have on patients' health and healthcare experience. 

Numerous WVU Medicine hospitals are operating under crisis standards of care because of high COVID-19 patient volumes, the Morgantown, W.Va.-based system said in a Sept. 16 Facebook post.

Centene subsidiary Superior HealthPlan launched Choose Tomorrow, its new suicide prevention initiative, on Sept. 20. 

A severely ill COVID-19 patient in Florida was flown to Connecticut in August to receive a lifesaving treatment known as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation after 169 hospitals in the Southeast turned him away because their beds were filled with other COVID-19…

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, dozens of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis case reports have deemed the coronavirus as the trigger, NBC News reported Sept. 16.  

Helena, Mont.-based St. Peter's Health enacted crisis standards of care Sept. 16 as their critical care units and morgue hit 100 percent capacity, according to KTVH-DT.