Category: Patient Safety & Outcomes

Hospitals and physicians are voicing concerns over the Biden administration’s proposed rules to improve maternal health, arguing the current approach is too punitive and could inadvertently hinder access to obstetrical care. 

CMS for the first time has proposed “baseline” requirements related to hospitals’ obstetrical services, which include standards related to staffing and emergency readiness. 

The second patient to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig, and who lived with the organ for 47 days, died July 7, The New York Times reported July 9.

Around 13% of patients with a dementia diagnosis may instead have advanced liver disease — also called cirrhosis — which can cause reversible cognitive decline, researchers at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and the Richmond VA …

Compared to white and cisgender adolescents, Black youth and transgender and nonbinary adolescents are less likely to be admitted for patient care, according to a study published July 8 in JAMA Pediatrics. 

Phoenix-based Mayo Clinic in Arizona performed the third total larynx transplant in the U.S. and the first to be performed on a patient with active cancer.

A recent report found that 54% of Americans have self-diagnosed using online information, with search engine and medical information websites being the most commonly used sources.

In 2012, a program for children’s hospitals in the U.S. and Canada launched to eliminate patient and employee harm.

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare has more than tripled the number of liver transplants performed since 2018. 

In 2005, Cincinnati Children’s had a serious patient safety event every 21 days on average. Now, there are hundreds of days between safety events.