Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine, in collaboration with students at the University of Pennsylvania, has developed a virtual reality experience aimed at reducing fear and anxiety related to patient radiation.
The American Hospital Association and the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit have collaborated to create resources to mitigate targeted violence in healthcare settings, including threat assessment and prevention strategies.
Surgeons at Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic recently performed the health system’s first paired living-donor liver transplants, marking a significant step in expanding treatment options for patients with liver failure.
Black patients were 29% less likely to receive multimodal analgesia involving four or more modes following surgical procedures, according to research presented Oct. 20 at the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ annual meeting. .
Despite decades of effort, the healthcare industry has failed to achieve meaningful progress in patient safety goals, according to Emergency Care Research Institute President and CEO Marcus Schabacker, MD, PhD.
Patients who undergo several orthopedic surgeries in hospitals face a high risk of malnutrition, which can delay recovery and cause death, according to a study of more than 28 million patients.
Standard hospital gowns have long been “the bane of the patient experience,” but a movement is underway to change that, according to an opinion piece in The New York Times published Oct. 21.
Hurricane Helene-related IV supply shortages have left parenteral nutrition-dependent patients in limbo, according to an Oct. 18 report from KFF Health NewsKFF Health News.