Patient Safety & Outcomes

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.

ECRI Institute launched a joint patient safety organization with the Institute for Safe Medication Practices to improve the safety of medication, medical device and care practices.

Surgeons at Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center performed their 1,000th solid organ transplant June 24. 

The CDC clarified that a recent update to its quarantine guidance does not imply that people are immune to reinfection from the new coronavirus within three months of their first infection.