New policies are needed to close hospital patient safety gap between Black and White patients, researchers say. Differences in the quality of hospitals that Black and White patients access are a ...

Investigators led by John Rose, MD, MPH, of the University of California, San Diego (San Diego, CA), looked at data for 43,385 EVAR procedures and 27,561 open repairs extracted from the Nationwide ...

Leaders at the Yale School of Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine have developed a comprehensive cross-domain approach ...

Healthgrades has announced the recipients of the 2026 Patient Safety Excellence Awards, which “recognize hospitals that excel at providing top-quality care while preventing serious safety events ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Four Cleveland Clinic hospitals and four University Hospitals made the list of top U.S. hospitals on the 2026 Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Awards. The awards recognize ...

CMS will continue reporting data on patient safety indicators including pressure sores, falls and sepsis. The agency’s initial proposal to suppress data reported by hospitals as part of a measure ...

Harnessing data is essential to improve quality and patient safety, the chief medical and quality officer of CommonSpirit Health says. CommonSpirit Health has been making a concerted effort to improve ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has pulled back on plans to pause public reporting on certain hospital safety data in the wake of pushback from patient safety advocates. In Monday’s ...

Use of health information technology in acute care settings is associated with modestly lower rates of adverse patient safety outcomes for inpatient and surgical care. In a cross-sectional ...

Medical errors are common in healthcare -- too common. Such errors can result in patient harm, and unfortunately, the picture hasn't improved much over the past decade-plus, according to a new study ...

Penn State Health pushes sterilization concerns update after January 2025 incident, detailing investigation findings and corrective actions at ...