Sixty-one percent of physicians said their patients were influenced by medical misinformation or disinformation a moderate amount or a great deal of the time over the past year, a recent Physicians Foundation survey found. The nonprofit research group surveyed 1,002…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
Two people are dead after a shooting at Integris Health Enid (Okla.) Hospital late Aug. 17, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation confirmed to Becker’s. According to reports from ABC affiliate WTAE and Fox affiliate KOKH, police first responded to…
Hospitals and health systems are preparing for a rise in high-risk pregnancies, even as many labor and delivery units shut down. Vizient company Sg2 projected that the proportion of high-risk pregnancies will accelerate alongside a rise in obesity-related comorbidities, including…
HHS has reinstated the Safer Childhood Vaccines task force, the agency said in an Aug. 14 news release. Here are six things to know: 1. The task force, created by Congress, was originally disbanded in 1998. 2. In its new…
Barbara Wadsworth, DNP, RN, executive vice president and COO of Radnor Township, Pa.-based Main Line Health, never set out to be an entrepreneur — but she recently made her mark in the space. On July 1, the U.S. Patent and…
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Researchers across 23 medical centers found a new two-dose treatment that could be as effective as standard treatment for complicated Staphylococcus aureus. The study was led by researchers from Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health, Washington, D.C.-based George Washington University and the…
More than 14,500 complaints were lodged against hospitals in fiscal 2024, a 79% increase in complaints compared to fiscal 2019, according to a CMS report published Aug. 6. Federal CMS annually assesses each state CMS survey agency on how they…
New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System has released the country’s first clinical manual for treating infection-associated chronic illnesses, according to an Aug. 13 news release. The clinical manual covers several infection-associated chronic illnesses, including long COVID, long Lyme disease,…
In February, CMS issued an immediate jeopardy citation at Tenet Healthcare’s Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass., citing inadequate nurse staffing levels that affected the care of five patients, three of whom died. The immediate jeopardy warning followed six complaints…
The top hospitals in the U.S. are focused on utilizing technology to identify safety risks early and fostering a culture where patient safety is a shared responsibility. Among more than 4,000 U.S. hospitals evaluated on patient safety and outcomes measures,…