Insights & News in Healthcare Safety

At-Home Cardiac Rehabilitation Just as Effective as Center-Based Programs

Reimbursement Enacted during Pandemic Set to Expire At-home or hybrid cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs are safe and work as well as or better than center-based programs for reducing risk and im...

Palliative Care Access for Indigenous Populations: Removing Barriers and Reducing Disparities

Palliative care is a type of specialized medical care for patients living with terminal medical conditions. The goal of palliative care is to alleviate patients’ suffering and to improve their qual...

Balancing Disinfection and Manufacturer Recommendations in Ultrasound Technologies

Introduction As the use of ultrasound technology continues to expand across various medical disciplines—from radiology and cardiology to point-of-care applications—ensuring appropriate and effectiv...

Five Key Takeaways on Video-Based Patient Monitoring for Preventing Falls

ECRI named ongoing challenges related to patient falls as one of its 2024 Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns because falls continue to be the number one sentinel event reported to the Joint Commission ...

Using Evidence to Facilitate Physician-Patient Conversations about GLP-1 RAs

Glucagon-like peptide receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) now available to promote weight loss—Wegovy (semaglutide), Zepbound (tirzepatide), and Saxenda (liraglutide)—could potentially make much needed g...

Monitoring Patients Who Take GLP-1 RAs for Weight Loss – What Prescribers Should Know

Roughly one year after their introduction, Wegovy (semaglutide) and Zepbound (tirzepatide) continue to shake up the obesity treatment landscape in the United States. Uptake for these two glucagon-l...

Weighing the Evidence on New Weight Loss Drugs – Five Takeaways

The prevalence of overweight and obesity keeps worsening in America despite our enormous collective effort to lose weight. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that overwei...

Exploring Oral Hygiene’s Role in Reducing Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia

Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a lung infection that develops 48 hours or more after initiating invasive mechanical ventilation. Mechanical ventilation assists breathing in patients who h...

Bringing Everyone to the Table: Rapid Evidence Assessments Facilitate Meaningful Dialogue Across the Stakeholder Spectrum

In the last two decades, the number of commercially available genetic tests is thought to have increased by more than 5,000%—from approximately 1,500 to an estimated 100,000 or more. This number on...