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Some cans of Bumble Bee, Chicken of the Sea, StarKist, Safe Catch, and Wild Planet tuna contained higher than usual mercury levels, despite the average level being within standards.

This physician sounds the alarm on CDC’s ill-founded mandates for mandatory masking, citing the recent Cochrane Review.

Healthgrades communicates performance in two ways—through ratings and awards—to assist consumers in evaluating and comparing hospital performance specific to specialist service lines and speciality emphasis areas. Using Medicare inpatient data from the Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MedPAR) file purchased from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for the years 2019 through 2021, hospitals were evaluated for overall clinical excellence and measure performance. Data on patient outcomes for 31 diseases or treatments were examined for almost all hospitals in the nation. Also, with the fewest occurrences of 14 avoidable patient safety events, hospitals in the top 10% of the country are honored with the Patient Safety Excellence Award, and analyzing data from surveys of the hospital’s own patients to evaluate patient experience across 10 metrics, the top 15% of hospitals receive the Outstanding Patient Experience Award. Finally, each year, Healthgrades recognizes hospitals in the United States that offer the most common gynecologic treatments and where patients are at a decreased risk of complications during their stay for labor and delivery.

Authors found that in 23.6% of a random sample of 2,809 admissions, there were at least one adverse event. 316 of the 978 adverse events were classified as having a significant or higher severity level, and 222 were deemed to be preventable. In 6.8% of all admissions, an adverse event that could have been avoided happened, and in 1% of those cases, the incident had a serious or higher severity rating. Seven people passed away, one of which was thought to be avoidable. The most frequent adverse events (representing 39.0% of all occurrences) were adverse medication events, which were followed by surgical or other procedural events (30.4%), patient-care events (15.0%), and infections related to medical care (11.9%).

This 70-study meta analysis concludes that the evidence is moderate to high that bisphosphonates and denosumab reduce the risk for hip, vertebral, and other fractures. The evidence is moderate to high that abaloparatide and teriparatide reduce clinical fractures and radiographic vertebral fractures, and low to moderate that SERMs reduce radiographic vertebral fractures, but not clinical fractures.

Innovative and creative Risky Business events emphasize risk management, patient safety, and safety awareness. To enable all of their colleagues to work in a safer environment, they continuously “raise the bar” by exchanging safety ideas and experiences across industries. The integration of experiences from speakers representing a wide range of non-healthcare businesses into a coherent narrative and actionable results is a crucial component of Risky Business. In this two-hour video webinar taking place on Thursday, January 12 from 10:00 AM to noon , the panelists will talk about a wide range of topics, including systemic problems, workforce implications, community needs, and what industry experts are doing to address the situation. To address challenges of capacity and resource strain, they will examine cutting-edge digital technology and government and healthcare system collaboration.