As states begin to reopen amid the COVID-19 pandemic and hospitals ramp up elective surgeries, it is crucial hospitals do all they can to strengthen and improve postoperative outcomes. As a result, more hospitals are exploring or have implemented enhanced…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
Some COVID-19 patients continue to experience symptoms of the disease weeks and months after being diagnosed, particularly in cases where the disease does not become severe enough to require hospital admission, and physicians are trying to figure out why, NBC…
HIV may not put patients at greater risk for severe COVID-19 illness or complications, a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases found.
The HHS updated the guideline for assessing solid organ donors or recipients with potential HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C virus infections.
A clinical quality leader at Columbia, Md.-based MedStar Health has committed to walking 3,000 miles this year — roughly the distance from the West to East Coast — to raise awareness of patient and healthcare worker safety.
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In the first four months of the pandemic, only a small percentage of children with COVID-19 needed intensive care, a review of 131 studies finds.
Only half of U.S. states offer public guidance on how to allocate mechanical ventilators during a public health emergency, a new study shows.
State and federal regulators are investigating claims that Albuquerque, N.M.-based Lovelace Women's Hospital is unfairly targeting Native American women through a COVID-19 screening policy, according to a joint report from New Mexico In Depth and ProPublica.
Women are nearly 9 percent more likely to die while waiting for a liver transplant than men, a new study shows.
The Joint Commission on June 17 outlined some of the hospital requirements it will assess during normal survey processes, which resumed this month.