Patient Safety & Outcomes

Mayo Clinic Health System will defer elective procedures at its hospitals in Northwest Wisconsin starting Oct. 31 amid an escalation of COVID-19 cases, the system said Oct. 30. 

Sepsis diagnosis can take up to five days, wasting crucial time needed to treat the infection, but researchers at Pennsylvania-based Penn State and California-based Stanford University are working to change that with the development of a two-hour diagnostic blood test,…

Hospitals across the U.S. are beginning to suspend elective procedures to respond to an uptick in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. 

University of Arkansas Medical Sciences in Little Rock has canceled elective surgeries after a water pipe burst Oct. 26 and destroyed sterile supplies and personal protective equipment in the building's basement, according to the Arkansas Times. 

Here is a recap of 29 study findings on the novel coronavirus Becker's has covered since Sept. 1.

If the number of positive COVID-19 cases remains steady, Wisconsin is on track to run out of intensive care unit beds and the people to staff them in as little as two weeks, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 

Hospitals around Knoxville, Tenn., are warning that their volume of elective procedures may be affected if the number of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 remains high. 

An antibiotic stewardship intervention program led by nurses at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore led to a reduction of inappropriate urinary cultures for adult patients, according to a pilot study published in the November issue of The Joint Commission Journal…

Erie, Pa.-based Saint Vincent Hospital plans to postpone a small number of elective procedures after "a number of patients and direct caregivers" recently tested positive for COVID-19, according to a hospital statement shared with WJET. 

Wildfires and smoke in Southern California have affected services at some of Kaiser Permanente's medical facilities in the region.