Category: Patient Experience

An international panel of experts has developed standardized definitions and treatment protocols for anaphylaxis, aiming to eliminate long-standing inconsistencies in emergency care.

Guest service ambassadors in emergency departments reduced the rate of patients leaving without being seen, especially in minority racial groups, a recent study found.

Systemic failures in the U.S. organ transplant system have led to widespread inequities, with some procurement organizations and hospitals regularly bypassing official waiting lists, The New York Times reported Feb. 26.

SGMC Health, a four-hospital system based in Valdosta, Ga., is investing $7.8 million to install more than 300 new patient beds. 

The longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney is returning home Feb. 25, three months after the breakthrough surgery. 

Unrepresented patients — people without family members or someone named in a medical directive — are a small but growing group in hospitals that can put a strain on the system and suffer from lower patient outcomes, PBS and NPR affiliate WHYY reported …

Rockville Centre, N.Y.-based Catholic Health has spent the last 10 years building what is now an award-winning culture of safety. 

A growing number of hospitals are utilizing medical chaperones as part of their efforts to bolster safety, according to a Feb. 24 report from NPR affiliate WBUR.

Ashville, N.C.-based Mission Health has terminated an employee after a patient died in an emergency department bathroom Feb. 10.

A systemwide initiative to reduce anesthesia-caused greenhouse gas emissions can succeed without compromising patient safety, according to researchers at Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine.