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Jan 11, 2023 · Adverse events during hospitalization are a major cause of patient harm, as documented in the 1991 Harvard Medical Practice Study. ... infections and patient-care events documented in 2020. 25 ...
- NEJM
Adverse events occurred in 3.7 percent of the...
- NEJM
Jul 17, 2019 · Patient harm during healthcare is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality internationally.1 2 The World Health Organization defines patient harm as “an incident that results in harm to a patient such as impairment of structure or function of the body and/or any deleterious effect arising there from or associated with plans or actions taken during the provision of healthcare, rather than ...
- Maria Panagioti, Kanza Khan, Richard N Keers, Aseel Abuzour, Denham Phipps, Evangelos Kontopantelis,...
- 2019
Meaning Among skilled nursing facilities in the US from January to November 2020, adverse changes occurred in some health and quality of life measures during the first year of the pandemic and prior to the availability of COVID-19 vaccination, compared with the prepandemic period of January to November 2018 and 2019, even among facilities that did not have known COVID-19 cases.
- Health Outcomes
- Health Spending
- Access & Affordability
- Quality of Care
- Disparities in Health System Performance
- Conclusion
1. COVID-19 reached the third leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020, and will almost surely shorten life expectancy in the U.S. and in other hard-hit countries. Life expectancy in the U.S. had increased by 5 years over the past 4 decades, although there have been declines in recent years driven by increased mortality rates from certain causes ...
3. The pandemic led to a historic decline in health spending. As of October 2020, spending on health services and prescription drugs was down 0.5% from 2019, on an annualized basis. Any drop in health spending is historic, but health costs remain high. Per person health spending was $11,172 in 2018, about double that of peer countries. This spendin...
5. The pandemic has caused tremendous healthcare access problems in the U.S. In November 2020, 24% of adults reported that because of the pandemic, they did not get needed medical care for something other than coronavirus. Telemedicine usehas substantially increased and offset some of the drop in in-person care, but not enough to return to normal l...
8. In December 2020, U.S. federal officials warned states that patient care might suffer as hospitalizations continue surging and health care staffing capacity reaches its limits across the U.S. As health care resources are strained to meet surging COVID-19 pandemic demand, quality of care might suffer. Other comparable countries might also have wo...
Health disparities in the U.S. are likely to worsen due to the pandemic. COVID-19 related hospitalizations and mortality have disproportionately impacted Black, Native American and Alaska Native, Hispanic, and low-income people in the U.S. Although the U.S. health system’s performance has generally improved over time across many indicators, many di...
The pandemic has abruptly shifted trends in health outcomes, spending, and access to healthcare. Although it will take years to analyze the pandemic’s effect on the U.S. health system, early data show an unprecedented downward effect on health spending in 2020 and further widening of the gap in health outcomes between the U.S. and its peers. COVID-...
Sep 11, 2023 · Patient safety is defined as “the absence of preventable harm to a patient and reduction of risk of unnecessary harm associated with health care to an acceptable minimum." Within the broader health system context, it is “a framework of organized activities that creates cultures, processes, procedures, behaviours, technologies and environments in health care that consistently and ...
Jan 12, 2023 · By Kaitlin Sullivan. Nearly 1 in 4 patients who are admitted to hospitals in the U.S. will experience harm, according to a study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The ...
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Jul 12, 2022 · A study published in JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and funded and carried out by Health and Human Services (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) shows that rates of in-hospital adverse events for healthcare related patient harm fell significantly in the U.S. in the decade prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
