Press Ganey seeks to decrease patient and caregiver harm by 80 percent over the next five years through a new initiative called Safety 2025: Accelerate to Zero.
Patient Safety & Outcomes
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality outlines 47 practices healthcare providers can adopt or refine to improve patient safety in a new report.
On any given day in a national network of U.S. children's hospitals, more than one-third of hospitalized children received an antibiotic, according to a study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
Videotaping staff members performing CPR in the emergency department may help improve resuscitation rates, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
The findings of a new study suggest that twins should only be delivered after 37 weeks of pregnancy.
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Diagnostic errors and maternal health issues are the top two patient safety concerns for healthcare organizations in 2020, as ranked by patient safety organization ECRI Institute.
Last year, scientists revealed they had cured an HIV patient for the second time in recorded history. That individual, dubbed the "London Patient," is now revealing his identity, reports The New York Times.
CMS seeks to streamline the log-in process for hospitals reporting data on QualityNet by switching to a new identity management system this spring, reports AHA News.
A program implemented at Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White Health helped cut post-surgery opioid prescriptions by 64 percent, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
The University of Pennsylvania's School of Nursing will attempt to replicate and study its own transitional care model at four other health systems through a $6 million grant from Arnold Ventures, a Houston-based foundation known for investing in Civica Rx.