Researchers have identified three biomarkers that can be measured in the blood to help clinicians predict which COVID-19 patients may die, a new study shows.
Patient Safety & Outcomes
Nearly 77 percent of the COVID-19 patients hospitalized from March to early April in New Orleans-based Ochsner Health's network were black, a new study shows.
One in 10 diabetics with COVID-19 died within seven days of being hospitalized, a study of hospitals in France found.
Though minutes can make all the difference in the treatment of people having strokes, many of them are seeking help at hospital and other treatment centers hours later than they did before the COVID-19 pandemic, new research shows.
Hospitals can prevent adverse patient events and improve safety outcomes by easily implementing a quality management system following ST90 guidelines.
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Black COVID-19 patients are nearly three times as likely to be hospitalized as their white counterparts, a new study shows.
The Joint Commission will resume regular certification and accreditation surveys in June that will incorporate new social-distancing precautions for COVID-19, the accrediting body said May 27.
Patients received antibiotics in about two-thirds of hospitalizations in a two-year period beginning January 2016, a new study shows, leading researchers to conclude that U.S. inpatient antibiotic use "remains high."
Strokes are more severe and deadly among COVID-19 patients than among people without the disease, a new study shows.
The COVID-19 pandemic could increase the risk of diagnostic errors due to staffing shortages, chaotic work environments and high levels of clinician stress and fatigue, two healthcare quality experts wrote in an article published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.