Patient Safety & Outcomes

The state of Colorado shut down a psychiatric hospital in Johnstown and is working to revoke the facility's license, according to ABC affiliate Denver7.

Thursday, September 17 marked the celebration of World Patient Safety Day 2020. Since its inception, World Patient Safety Day has had three primary goals: enhance the global understanding of patient safety, increase public engagement in the safety of health care,…

COVID-19 hospitalizations in Wisconsin reached a record high this week, placing strain on some hospitals in the state, according to local news station WKOW.

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health will use a $1.4 million grant to establish a screening protocol to assess people for risk of firearm injury.

Researchers from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine have developed a prediction model to help clinicians forecast if a coronavirus patient's conditions are likely to worsen.

Best practices for sepsis care and recovery offer physicians numerous lessons to promote quicker recoveries for patients with severe COVID-19 cases, two physicians wrote in an op-ed published in JAMA.

The type of treatment that children receive for mental health conditions — and the likelihood they receive follow-up care — varies greatly in the U.S., according to a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 

About 40 percent of adult COVID-19 patients hospitalized at New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health experienced acute kidney injury this spring, according to new research from Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, the system's research arm.

Physicians and leaders at many U.S. hospitals say they are feeling better prepared to respond to a potential second wave of COVID-19 cases this fall, according to The Wall Street Journal.

In the days following the switch to daylight saving time, human mistakes tied to patient safety-related incidents increased by almost 20 percent, according to a study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.