Surgical patients treated in hospitals with good work environments for nurses are less likely to require intensive care or die, according to a study published Dec. 15 in AACN Advanced Critical Care.
Category: Patient Safety & Outcomes
US data indicates omicron less severe: CDC
While the highly transmissible omicron variant has pushed U.S. cases and hospitalizations to record highs, a smaller proportion of cases resulted in hospitalization compared to earlier pandemic surges, according to the CDC’s Jan. 25 Morbidity and Morta…
4 factors that may predict long COVID-19
Clinicians may be able to determine which patients are at risk of developing prolonged COVID-19 symptoms based on four clinical factors measured at the time of diagnosis, according to a study published Jan. 24 in Cell.
Omicron’s full burden on children is still unknown, Texas Children’s leader says
Children’s hospitals nationwide have seen record levels of COVID-19 patients amid the omicron surge, despite children having the lowest risk of hospitalization from the virus.
65% of people who had COVID-19 in 1st wave still have smell dysfunction: 3 study findings
In a small study of 100 people who contracted COVID-19 in the first wave, more than half have long-term changes to their sense of smell, according to preliminary research published Jan. 20 by MedRxiv.
Viewpoint: Healthcare needs a ‘quintuple aim’
The healthcare industry should expand the “quadruple aim” to include a fifth key focus: advancing health equity, three physician leaders wrote in a Jan. 21 op-ed published in JAMA.
Minnesota COVID-19 patient dies in Texas after court rules to continue life support
Scott Quiner — a COVID-19 patient who was transferred from Coon Rapids, Minn.-based Mercy Hospital to a Texas care facility after a judge issued a restraining order stopping the hospital from turning off lifesaving machines — has died, according to The…
COVID-19, not vaccine, may affect male fertility, NIH study finds
A National Institutes of Health-funded study involving more than 2,000 couples found COVID-19 vaccination doesn’t affect the chances of conception.
‘The pandemic we were afraid of in 2020’: Some patients dying because Massachusetts hospitals at capacity
As Massachusetts hospitals struggle amid the current omicron surge, multiple reports have emerged of patients dying because they couldn’t be transferred to higher-level care, NPR reported Jan. 18.
Minnesota COVID-19 patient transferred to Texas after judge rules to keep him ventilated
A ventilated patient with severe COVID-19 was transferred from Coon Rapids, Minn.-based Mercy Hospital to a Texas care facility after a judge issued a restraining order stopping the hospital from turning life-saving machines off, according to a Jan. 17…
