Patient Safety & Outcomes

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.

A recent study, conducted by Katherine Hoda, MD, concluded that more pre-cancerous polyps were found in colonoscopies performed with deep sedation than with milder sedation in which patients remained conscious, according to a news release fro Somnia Anesthesia.

Doctors Community Hospital in Lanham, Md., has been fined $30,000 for failure to report errors that resulted in patient death and serious harm as is required by state law, according to a report by the Washington Post.

The Hospital of Central Connecticut, which has locations in New Britain and Southington, has been disciplined by state officials after inspections found several violations, including one that may have led to a patient's death, according to a report in The…