Hospital

A partnership between a hospital system and a community detoxification facility led to significant reductions in lengths of stay and costs without increasing readmission or mortality rates among people who inject drugs, findings showed.

At least one in three patients who survived AKI and required hemodialysis recovered kidney function within the first 90 days after discharge from the hospital, according to recently published data.

The AAP has partnered with five hospitals on a new, multi-year initiative meant to assist parents in creating safe sleeping environments for their infants.

Hospital admission with an AKI diagnosis increases the risk for death, hospitalization, heart failure, pneumonia and sepsis after hospital discharge, according to results presented at ASN Kidney Week.

Researchers found no link between telestroke adoption and changes in stroke systems of care in a national sample of hospitals that implemented telestroke practices in EDs, according to a cross-sectional study published in JAMA Network Open.

Environmental MRSA contamination of hospital rooms likely depends on patient activity and level of colonization, researchers reported in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

African ancestry appeared strongly associated with readmission following an asthma-related hospital admission among children, according to study results published in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

Direct transfer to an angiography suite within 6 hours of stroke onset increased rates of endovascular therapy, reduced hospital workflow time and enhanced clinical outcomes, according to findings published in JAMA Neurology.

Nearly 40% of patients who shared a hospital room with a patient with SARS-CoV-2 at one Boston hospital became infected within 14 days, according to study results published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Boston Children’s Hospital was named Tuesday as the best children’s hospital in the United States for the eighth consecutive year by U.S. News & World Report, which expanded its annual list this year to include state and regional rankings.