Category: Patient Safety & Outcomes

On April 1, Leapfrog updated its list of 29 diagnostic error practice recommendations after hospital leaders asked for a hierarchy.

Patients’ perception of hospital safety has worsened since the pandemic, according to an April 2 Press Ganey report.

Among 17,290 adults who were hospitalized for pneumonia in Michigan, 1 in 8 were misdiagnosed, according to a new study. 

Every week, the emergency department at Loma Linda (Calif.) University Medical Center sees a patient who experienced a serious complication from cosmetic surgery that was performed by a physician with no background in the specialty, according to a Marc…

CMS has approved HCA Mission Hospital’s plan of correction to address a violation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act regulators uncovered at the Asheville, N.C., hospital during a visit last November. 

HHS and CMS released updated  guidance on informed patient consent at teaching hospitals and medical schools regarding sensitive examinations. 

For each of the 29 recommended practices to reduce diagnostic errors, Leapfrog found at least 60% of leading hospitals are working on enforcing the practice. But full compliance is low. 

Surgeons at Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine successfully completed the nation’s first double-lung and liver transplant, the health system said March 28.  

A new method to resuscitate cardiac arrest patients often proves more effective than CPR, but various implementation hurdles have prevented many hospitals from using it, according to a March 27 article in The New York Times Magazine.

 In January, Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, N.J., began seeing pediatric patients through a new program to address childhood obesity.