Patient Safety & Outcomes

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. 

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.

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. 

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.