Safety is a public health issue that affects not only the well-being of our patients, but also the integrity of our entire industry. Over the years, we've made incredible strides in improving safety standards. Yet challenges remain. And, as we…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
Houston-based MD Anderson Cancer Center's hemovigilance unit was born from a blood transfusion-related event that led to a patient's death in 2019. Kimberly Klein, MD, medical director of the unit, presented operational insights from the program at the Association for…
About 1% of audio transcriptions written by Open AI's Whisper, a speech recognition tool launched in 2022 and currently used in hospitals, contain hallucinated phrases or sentences when nobody spoke, according to a recent study.
"Outdated protocols" and a lack of patient education around anaphylaxis treatment can result in poor patient outcomes, Medscape Medical News reported Oct. 28.
Pediatric cases of Mycoplasma pneumoniae-associated pneumonia, which can cause "walking pneumonia," have been rising over the last six months, according to the CDC.
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The American Hospital Association and the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit have collaborated to create resources to mitigate targeted violence in healthcare settings, including threat assessment and prevention strategies. Healthcare industry workers experience the highest rate of injury from workplace violence and are…
Surgeons at Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic recently performed the health system's first paired living-donor liver transplants, marking a significant step in expanding treatment options for patients with liver failure.
Four thoracic societies are collaborating to develop standardized guidelines for clinical practice to improve patient care and safety.
A 12-year-old boy has become the first patient in the U.S. to receive gene therapy for sickle cell disease, The New York Times reported Oct. 21.
Black patients were 29% less likely to receive multimodal analgesia involving four or more modes following surgical procedures, according to research presented Oct. 20 at the American Society of Anesthesiologists' annual meeting. .