Tag: Hospitals
Home Hospital Model Creates Capacity, Delivers Quality Care
Findings show model can successfully free up hospital beds by treating some patients at home during a pandemic
Mishaps Common During Patient Transport From Emergency Care
Common risk events during intrahospital patient transport from ED included limb trapping/displacement, collisions, IV line or catheter issues
Morbidity Risk Up Among Black and Hispanic Term Newborns
More Black and Hispanic women deliver in hospitals ranking in the highest-morbidity tertile compared with White, Asian American women
mRNA Vaccine Effective Against Hospitalization Over 24-Week Period
Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines effective against COVID-19-associated hospitalizations among adults
Regional Stroke Triage by EMS Ups Endovascular Therapy Rate
Implementation of a prehospital transport policy tied to sharp and sustained change in endovascular therapy rates
Monthly COVID-19 Hospitalization Rates Peaked in December 2020
Peak reported in hospitalization, ICU admission, death, but decrease found in frequency of ICU admission, mechanical ventilation, vasopressor use
Record Number of COVID-19 Hospitalizations Seen in Florida
Hospitalizations are 13 percent higher than the previous peak on July 23, 2020
‘Superbug’ Fungus Spreads Among Vulnerable in Two U.S. Cities
There were 101 Candida auris cases at a nursing home and 22 cases at hospitals from January to April
Black Adult Patients Have Worse Patient Safety in Hospitals
Black adults experienced worse patient safety relative to White patients in same age group, of same gender, treated at same hospital
Patients of Female Doctors Have Lower In-Hospital Mortality
Findings in Canada when adjusting for hospital and patient characteristics
