Patient Safety & Outcomes

Here is the average length of stay, charges and costs per patient for hospitals by patient type, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project 2007 national statistics.

New legislation, to be signed into law by New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, requires hospitals in the state to make public more detailed information regarding medical errors, according to a report in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y., received the highest payment from CMS's nationwide pay-for-performance (P4P) demonstration project, according a release from North Shore-LIJ Health System, the hospital's parent corporation.

Twenty-nine hospitals operated by Tenet Healthcare Corp. have received a total of 73 designations for cardiac care, cardiac surgery and heart rhythm disorders by UnitedHealthcare, according to a Tenet news release.

Here is the average time spent in the post-anesthesia care unit for a number of spine procedures performed in the ASC setting, according to a study completed by Kenneth Pettine, MD. The study analyzed data from 1,030 spine cases performed…

Here are the percentage of wrong-site surgery claims that were paid along with the average payment, adjusted to 2008 dollars, by specialty, from the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority and the Physician Insurers Association of America.

The 12 hospitals and 21 surgery centers in Rhode Island have agreed to a new surgical protocol to prevent wrong-site surgery errors, according to a report in The Providence Journal.

Here are the top 10 states with the longest average number of minutes spent by patients in the emergency department.

Here are the top 10 states with the shortest average number of minutes spent by patients in the emergency department.

The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses is promoting National Time Out Day, June 17, to emphasize the importance of surgical teams to take a time out to confirm vital patient information prior to surgery, according to an AORN news release.