Patient Safety & Outcomes

Medicare beneficiaries with cancer are less likely to be granted observation status when presenting at the emergency department than patients without cancer, even though this treatment status is often a viable alternative to inpatient admission, according to a study published…

While there is an intensifying focus on safe pain management in the acute care setting, many hospitals continue to experience adverse events related to unintentional overdoses among patients, according to a report from the ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization.

Patients and staff were evacuated Friday morning from Summa St. Thomas Hospital in Akron, Ohio, after a fire broke out around 6 a.m. in the facility's basement, according to News 5 Cleveland.

Fourteen residents have died from injuries sustained after Hollywood, Fla.-based Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills lost power after Hurricane Irma made landfall in the state one month ago, The Hill reports.

Michael Cheatham, MD, trauma surgeon and chief surgical quality officer at Orlando (Fla.) Regional Medical Center, is all too familiar with what Las Vegas hospitals are experiencing in the aftermath of the Oct. 1 mass shooting.

A man fatally shot himself inside the emergency department at North Mississippi Medical Center-Iuka on Saturday, according to Corinth Today.

A man fatally shot himself inside the emergency department at North Mississippi Medical Center-Iuka on Saturday, according to Corinth Today.

A medical transport helicopter made an emergency landing in Belleview, Fla., Wednesday morning due to an unruly patient on board, reports Ocala Star-Banner.

A new study, published in PLOS Medicine, examined the use of gabapentin along with opioid painkillers.

While emergency department discharges after opioid-related admissions have decreased since 2010, discharges pertaining to heroin use have surged since 2008, according to a study published in Health Affairs.