Patient Safety & Outcomes

About 22 percent of COVID-19 patients admitted to two New York City hospitals were critically ill, and nearly all had at least one chronic illness, a new study shows.

There is a strong correlation between severe vitamin D deficiency and severe complications among COVID-19 patients, including death, a new study shows.

Delirium, a mental state marked by intense confusion and emotional disruption, may be common in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, according to a study published in The Lancet Psychiatry.

Here are 28 clinical findings on the new coronavirus, as reported by Becker's Hospital Review in the last five weeks.

More than a third of COVID-19 patients developed acute kidney injury in New York hospitals, a new study shows.

New research suggests surgical experience with related procedures could help when setting volume standards for relatively rare operations, and adjusting credentials based on volume could ensure better patient outcomes, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open. 

About 56 percent of COVID-19 patients around the globe are male, and 34 percent are black, according to data from a new global registry.

More than a third of children, teens and young adults with COVID-19 in pediatric intensive care units needed to be placed on a ventilator, a new study shows.

COVID-19 may kill about 1.3 percent of symptomatic patients, an infection fatality rate that is 13 times higher than the flu, according to a peer-reviewed study slated for publication in Health Affairs.

Some COVID-19 patients come to the hospital with low blood oxygen levels — levels that should have them gasping for air — but instead, these patients are awake and talking, resulting in some physicians rethinking the use of ventilators for…