Patient Safety & Outcomes

DNV GL Healthcare, a hospital accrediting organization, can now certify psychiatric hospitals to participate in Medicare and Medicaid programs.

COVID-19 is associated with pancreatitis and might even cause it, a new study suggests.

Palliative care can shorten the length of stay for severely ill surgical patients who require ventilation, according to a study published in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.

Readmission after being hospitalized for COVID-19 and discharged was infrequent, an analysis of patients at a New York City-based health system shows.

Physicians across the country are reporting a new medical mystery related to COVID-19 care — patients who recover enough to be taken off ventilators often do not regain consciousness until days or weeks after, NPR reports.

Racial disparities are still very evident in hospice care despite a nationwide increase in hospice use over the past few decades, a study published in JAMA Network Open found. 

Two patients and three employees were injured when a steam pipe broke at Houston-based Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital this weekend, according to Click2Houston. 

Black newborns die at triple the rate of white newborns, but that disparity is cut in half when they're cared for by Black doctors, according to a study published Aug. 17 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The number of hospital beds occupied by COVID-19 patients in a state is strongly linked to mortality, a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine found. 

CMS is resuming routine inspections of all Medicare and Medicaid certified providers and suppliers.