Patient Safety & Outcomes

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…

A 4-year-old llama named Winter may have antibodies that can neutralize the new coronavirus, a new study shows, according to The New York Times.

Under usual circumstances, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, is provided to inpatients unless they have a do-not-resuscitate order on file, but the COVID-19 pandemic has changed considerations for providing CPR, according to a perspective article published in The New England Journal…

According to the American Cancer Society, colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. In 2020, approximately 53,200 Americans are expected to die from colorectal cancer. The good news is that several colorectal cancer…

Though men and women are equally as likely to contract COVID-19, men are far more likely to die from it, according to a study published in Frontiers of Public Health.

Nearly 2,600 COVID-19 patients in the U.S. have been treated using the blood plasma of individuals who recovered from the disease, and the treatment has not signaled any major safety issues, experts told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

Pregnant women with COVID-19 do not have worse outcomes than other women with the disease, according to a study published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Kidney transplant recipients with COVID-19 at a New York City hospital had higher early death rates than other coronavirus patients, new research shows.