Patient Safety & Outcomes

Counties where physicians received more gifts and payments from opioid-makers demonstrated higher overdose death rates than areas with lighter drug marketing, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Jessie Gaeta, MD, internist and CMO of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, can find and revive patients who have overdosed using a reverse motion detector, according to The Boston Globe.

A study published in Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy examined whether incorporating pharmacists with an expanded scope into the community or hospital emergency departments could affect ED volume.

Hospital-based physicians have a unique opportunity to find programs and practices to prevent and treat opioid addiction in isolated pockets of the healthcare system, emergency medicine physician Rebecca Parker, MD, writes in The Hill.

After a 2018 state law required about 80 Massachusetts hospitals and satellite emergency rooms to offer opioid-addicted patients medication, hospitals are receiving guidelines to help with prescribing practices, public radio station WBUR reports.

The American Heart Association is offering two online courses for health professionals and lay people on providing care and treatment for opioid overdose victims, reports the Macomb (Michigan) Daily.

Emergency rooms saw a 44 percent increase of patients with either a mental illness or a substance use disorder, according to CNN.

Every Massachusetts 911 operator will learn new call-taking protocols to help them avoid the types of mistakes that slowed emergency responders' search for a patient who died just a few feet from CHA Somerville Hospital's emergency room, according to The…

A study published in Academic Emergency Medicine clinically assessed the practice of discharging patients from the emergency department just one hour after receiving naloxone for drug overdoses.

A patient died after jumping from a window at Chicago-based Mercy Hospital Dec. 26, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.