Healthgrades has identified 880 hospitals as the recipients of its 2020 Patient Safety Excellence Award and Outstanding Patient Experience Award, the organization said June 16.
Patient Safety & Outcomes
Patients who leave the hospital against medical advice are nearly twice as likely to be readmitted within 30 days, a study published in JAMA Network Open found.
People with type O blood may be less susceptible to COVID-19, according to new research cited by The Wall Street Journal.
Fever was the most common clinical characteristic among 17 coronavirus patients with pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome, a recent study conducted in New York City found.
Surgeons at Chicago-based Northwestern Memorial Hospital performed a double lung transplant on an adult patient with COVID-19 last week, according to The New York Times.
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A national panel of health experts is for the first time recommending that clinicians screen all adults for unhealthy drug use.
If hospitals are able to lower the number of emergency room patients by just 10 percent, it could significantly lower patients' risk of death, a study published in the Journal of Health Economics found.
Obesity was the most prevalent underlying condition for children who were hospitalized after contracting the new coronavirus, a new study shows.
Most COVID-19 patients treated with blood plasma from recovered coronavirus patients show improvement, a new small study shows.
COVID-19 patients getting surgery may face several risks, including postoperative lung complications seen in about half of the patients in a new international study.