Patient Safety & Outcomes

Should unscheduled short-term return visits to the emergency department be used as a hospital quality performance measure? The question has healthcare experts divided. In a new study published in JAMA, researchers examined clinical outcomes associated with unscheduled return visits to…

Time in healthcare impacts the quality of patient care. The implications of ‘time’ are significant because it can affect a patient’s experience throughout the continuum of care and also their safety.

The following is a list of hospitals where patients spent on average five minutes or less in the emergency department before they were seen by a healthcare professional, as listed on Hospital Compare.

A 61-year-old man who was taken to a hospital after he was involved in a traffic crash shot and killed himself in the hospital's emergency room, according to Naples Daily News.

No evidence was found Tuesday to substantiate a report of a shooting at Naval Medical Center San Diego, according to CNN.

Two women were assaulted and injured in the lobby of Morristown (N.J.) Medical Center on the evening of Jan. 14, according to NJ.com.

One man was killed and a woman was injured outside Escondido, Calif.-based Palomar Medical Center when an 89-year-old suddenly accelerated his car while driving past the hospital entrance, according to CBS 8.

Three medical professionals have been removed from their normal duties at Calhoun Liberty Hospital in Blountstown, Fla., after showing a "lack of compassion" in handling the case of Barbara Dawson, a 57-year-old woman who died after being forcibly removed from…

Mount Sinai West Hospital in New York City redirected incoming patients to other hospitals Jan. 8 after a 31-year-old man jumped from the roof of a nearby building around 2 a.m., hitting a pressurized line that sends oxygen to the…

A 74-year-old patient at MedStar Washington Hospital Center died after an incident with security guards last fall. This week, the death was ruled a homicide, according to the Washington Post.