HHS’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has begun to cancel funding for research related to strengthening patient safety, care delivery, clinical practice and policy, and workforce training, according to a July 16 report from AcademyHealth. AcademyHealth — a nonprofit…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
Patients in U.S. hospitals were less likely to have a healthcare-associated infection in 2023 than in 2015, according to a CDC study published July 15 in The New England Journal of Medicine. On any given day in 2023, 1 in…
A Missouri review board deemed 79% of the state’s pregnancy-related deaths from 2019 to 2023 preventable, pointing to gaps in postpartum follow-up and mental healthcare. The finding comes from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services’ Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review…
In 2024, over 45,000 transplants were performed, and every 10 minutes, a patient was added to the transplant waiting list, according to a recent Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network and Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients report. “The OPTN/SRTR Annual Data…
Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has performed the first known quadruple-organ transplant involving retransplanted lungs in the U.S., the health system said in a July 14 news release. The recipient, 36-year-old Elizabeth Wehrle of Montezuma, Iowa, needed a rare four-organ transplant for…
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Inland Empire Health Plan and Riverside (Calif.) University Health System partnered on a childhood lead poisoning prevention effort, boosting Riverside County’s childhood lead screenings by 11% in 2025. The collaboration resulted from Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set measures indicating…
Dubai Health and Chicago-based Rush University System for Health entered a strategic collaboration July 10 to advance care, patient safety and clinical education across both academic health systems. The collaboration covers clinical programs and care models, quality and patient safety,…
Men were more likely than women to receive a late-stage diagnosis for 16 cancer sites between 2015 and 2022, according to a study published July 1 in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. Researchers from the National Cancer Institute analyzed 2,401,772…
Worldwide, about one in five people will develop cancer during their lifetime, according to a report published July 8 in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. Led by researchers at the American Cancer Society and the World Health Organization’s International…
Cardiologists and endocrinologists review wearable technology data the most often among specialties, according to a new American Medical Association survey. The “2026 AMA Multi-Country Study on Consumer Wearable Data in Clinical Practice” surveyed 2,222 physicians surveyed from January through early…