Patient Safety & Outcomes

Miami-based Nicklaus Children's Hospital is now one of a handful of pediatric hospitals in the nation to offer intestinal ultrasounds for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. The ultrasounds reduce the need for more invasive procedures typically required to monitor the…

UNC Hospitals Hillsborough (N.C.) was on lockdown for a short period on the morning of Aug. 13 after a prisoner escaped custody upon arriving at the medical facility for care. 

For other agencies, recalls mean removing products from the market, but with FDA medical device recalls, products are often allowed to stay in the market, CBS News reported Aug. 13.

This year has recorded numerous medical advances in transplantation, including a few firsts for the U.S. and the world. 

The top 10 causes of deaths worldwide have changed in the last few years, with one cause of death dropping in frequency, the World Health Organization found.

Community health centers are closing the gap in care, especially in rural areas where hospitals are closing, but some centers say they are losing staff to hospitals who pay high wages.

Premature babies born at 22 weeks are a "gray zone" for hospitals, which must decide whether or not to offer treatment, The Wall Street Journal reported Aug. 7.

A Northwestern Medicine patient underwent a kidney transplant while awake in July, and 36 hours after the painless procedure, he was discharged. 

A new compound antimicrobial cleared fatal flesh-eating bacteria in a mouse model, according to a study published Aug. 2 in Science Advances. 

More than half of patients hospitalized and treated for pneumonia receive differing diagnoses during their stays, according to a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine.