Patient Safety & Outcomes

Among 152 children hospitalized with COVID-19, 18 developed acute kidney injury, according to a study published March 3 in Kidney International.

The Joint Commission and Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente on March 4 unveiled an annual healthcare equity award in memory of Bernard J. Tyson, Kaiser's late chair and CEO.

About half of women seeking treatment for uncomplicated urinary tract infection receive inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions and 76 percent get prescriptions that are too long, according to a study recently published in Infection Control Hospital Epidemiology.

Quick, in-person meetings to review intensive care unit deaths can be an effective tool to improve care quality in the ICU, according to a study published in the American Journal of Critical Care.

A combination of vitamin C, thiamine and hydrocortisone, previously thought to be a promising treatment option for sepsis, did not improve patient outcomes in a study recently published in JAMA. 

Low vaccination rates for human papillomavirus infection fell even more during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to claims data from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.

NYU Langone Health aims to increase research and physician training on psychedelic medicine through a new center, the New York City-based health system said Feb. 24.

Venous thromboembolisms (VTE), or blood clots in the veins, affect as many as 900,000 Americans in the U.S. each year, about 50 percent of them are healthcare-associated, and as many as 70 percent of cases are preventable, according to the CDC. 

Mercy Hospital Cassville (Mo.) has temporarily closed after its roof caught fire Feb. 22, prompting the evacuation of all patients, according to local news station KTTS.

A woman with chronic obstructive lung disease contracted COVID-19 from a pair of donor lungs and died 61 days after the transplant — the first confirmed donor-to-recipient transmission of COVID-19 in the U.S., according to a case report published Feb.…