Category: Patient Safety & Outcomes

AI chatbots could help fight the loneliness endemic, Julian De Freitas, PhD, assistant professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School, wrote in an article for The Wall Street Journal.

Hospitals have become safer for patients in the past few years, but there is a long way to go, according to three health system leaders. 

Amid closures of OB-GYN units across the U.S., states are turning to home visitation programs to keep babies and new mothers healthy and reduce hospitalizations, NJ Spotlight News reported Sept. 17.

The CDC on Sept. 17 released a set of new resources to support hospitals in reducing diagnostic errors, which are responsible for nearly 800,000 deaths in the U.S. each year. 

New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System will be among the first institutions in the world to use blood tests to detect Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. The health system will offer the tests as a part of the Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborat…

Up to 5% of women who undergo tubal sterilization may later become pregnant, calling the procedure’s effectiveness as a contraceptive into question, according to a recent analysis from researchers at UCSF Health. 

Research is mounting against the common practices of prescribing thickened liquids, conducting spine implants for back pain and suspending blood pressure medicines before surgery, The New York Times reported Sept. 14. 

Suicide rates continue to rise despite national suicide prevention strategies — and a lack of policy adoption may be at the root, KFF Health News reported Sept. 16.

Although the American Medical Association recognized obesity as a disease state in 2013, weight stigma still persists in parts of the healthcare industry, which patients say is undermining care quality. 

Physicians’ awareness of a unique condition involving the inability to burp has grown largely due to patients’ discussions on Reddit, according to KFF Health News.