https://medicalxpress.com/hospital-medicine-news/ en-us Latest medical news and research in Hospital medicine Implementing an intersectoral, telemedicine-based intervention in nursing homes did not lead to a statistically significant reduction in patient hospitalizations, according to a prospective, multicenter cluster-randomized trial led by John Grosser, Sophie Pauge, Birthe Aufenberg and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Greiner from the Department of Health Economics and Health Care Management at Bielefeld University. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-telemedicine-intervention-nursing-home-hospitalizations.html Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:40:01 EDT news706528878 The United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union (EU) was associated with major changes in health care worker migration and worsening physician shortages in England, according to a new study published in JAMA Health Forum. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-brexit-reshaped-uk-health-workforce.html Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:00:02 EDT news706526101 At the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, Ukraine was hit with a 40% surge in demand for blood for its civilians and military personnel. Despite damaged health care facilities, supply chain disruptions and population displacement, the country maintained a self-sufficient blood supply by centralizing operations and expanding donor recruitment, according to a new international study that included scientists from Northwestern University. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-ukraine-wartime-blood.html Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:20:05 EDT news706293541 Every day across the country, patients wait hours or days in clogged emergency departments for a hospital bed to open—a well-known crisis called boarding. Now, a new study published in JAMA looks more closely at what happens after doctors decide patients are sick enough to be admitted. The findings could have important patient safety and public policy implications. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-bed-emergency-department-boarding-wide.html Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:20:04 EDT news706190882 UC Davis Health has significantly and sustainably improved inpatient glycemic care through a coordinated, system-wide approach, according to a study published in Diabetes, Obesity, and Cardiometabolic Care. The article describes how UC Davis Health developed and implemented a multidisciplinary inpatient glycemic management model that improved blood glucose outcomes across the medical center without increasing hypoglycemia—a critical patient safety concern in hospitalized populations. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-inpatient-diabetes-team-approach-safety.html Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:40:03 EDT news705643022 A new nationwide study finds antiviral treatment is linked to fewer intensive care unit (ICU) admissions and shorter hospital stays for children hospitalized with influenza. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-largest-real-world-early-flu.html Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:20:08 EDT news705582301 Health systems and hospitals are widely adopting AI solutions in administrative and clinical workflows, but there are significant gaps in strategy, validation, testing environments and success measurement, according to a new report from the Center for Connected Medicine at UPMC and KLAS Research. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-ai-health-outpacing-infrastructure-strategy.html Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:40:06 EDT news705226742 A study of nearly 100,000 adults treated for suspected infection suggests that the National Early Warning Score (NEWS2), a score based on routinely collected vital signs that is widely used to identify patients at risk of clinical deterioration, may help clinicians identify which patients are most likely to benefit from immediate antibiotic treatment and which may safely undergo further evaluation before receiving antibiotics. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-widely-early-score-urgency-antibiotic.html Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:00:03 EDT news705215041 Drug-induced deaths and hospitalizations in Australia have risen, with the trend driven by increased harms from amphetamine-type stimulants and cocaine, new data show. The latest annual reporting by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Center (NDARC) at UNSW Sydney shows more than 2,000 deaths in 2024—about 5.5 deaths per day—from drug overdoses. Nearly 57,000 drug-related hospitalizations—or 156 per day—were also recorded in 2023–24, marking a 10.5% increase compared to the previous year. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-drug-deaths-hospitalizations-driven.html Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:40:04 EDT news705057754 The study is the most comprehensive review of dementia hospitalizations ever undertaken in the UK. The researchers outline how delayed discharges, lack of communication among NHS staff and hospital environments unsuitable for dementia patients are keeping people in hospital unnecessarily, eroding dignity and exacerbating frailty. Those with dementia are five times more likely to remain in hospital despite being medically fit to leave, with delayed discharges alone costing £328 million annually to taxpayers. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-hospital-beds-dementia-patients.html Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:02:02 EDT news705056455 A University of Colorado Anschutz-led clinical trial has found an automated oxygen delivery system helped hospitalized patients spend significantly more time in their target oxygen range compared with standard care, while also reducing exposure to both low and high oxygen levels. Patients in the automated group spent 85% of their time in the target oxygen range compared with 63% in the standard care group. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-clinical-trial-ai-oxygen-delivery.html Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:00:03 EDT news704965073 If it feels harder to keep the same doctor, you're not imagining it. Health care leaders say retirements, burnout and changing workforce expectations are making it complicated to keep experienced clinicians in place. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-doctors.html Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:40:03 EDT news704723581 A first-of-its-kind U.S. study suggests invasive mold infections may be an underappreciated—and potentially deadly—threat. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-threat-mold-illnesses-underappreciated.html Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:12:31 EDT news704603526 Researchers from RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School found that an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled early warning system helped identify hospitalized patients at risk of rapid clinical decline sooner, contributing to fewer deaths among high-risk patients. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-ai-tool-patient-deterioration-earlier.html Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:00:01 EDT news704471341 A new way to measure comorbidity—when a patient suffers from multiple diseases or health conditions—can be used to accurately predict a patient's risk of hospitalization and future health care costs across a population, Cornell researchers report. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-high-patients-future-health.html Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:00:09 EDT news704375402 A UVA Health emergency medicine doctor and a colleague at Clemson University have developed a framework to help hospitals integrate artificial intelligence to not only increase efficiency and cut costs but also ensure high-quality patient care remains the top priority. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-doctors-principles-future-ai-health.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:20:03 EDT news703852141 The prevalence of health care-associated infections was lower in 2023 than in 2015 in the United States, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-decline-health-infections.html Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:40:02 EDT news703748583 The strange noises, the bright lights, the unfamiliar setting, the constant busyness—these stimuli and more can take a toll on a patient's mental well-being when they're in the hospital for a physical ailment. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-early-intervention-rapid-response-team.html Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:00:01 EDT news703747862 Health economics and public health experts have sought to shine a spotlight on the financialization of health care in the 21st century, but most of the literature has focused on how private equity and other financial actors are turning health care organizations like hospitals, nursing homes and physician practices into investment targets. A new paper is one of the first to systematically document how hospitals are also actively engaging in the financialization process as investors. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-analysis-nonprofit-hospitals-embracing-high.html Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:20:03 EDT news703489382 The sharp fall in EU nurses joining the NHS after the Brexit referendum may have contributed to more than 1,200 additional patient deaths each year in England, according to new research led by the University of Surrey in partnership with the University of Aberdeen, Harvard Business School and Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU). https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-brexit-nurse-exodus-linked-extra.html Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:40:04 EDT news703422209 Once upon a time, in Anywhere, U.S., there's a place called "Fable Hospital" where patients heal faster, staff stay longer and the building is designed to work with—not against—the people inside it. It's not a real place, but it was designed to solve a very real problem: why hospitals can be expensive to run, hard on staff and not always built for the best patient care. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-hospital-pays-fairy-tale.html Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:00:01 EDT news703401061 Getting patients seen by community health teams within a day of leaving the hospital could slash emergency readmissions and emergency department visits, a new study by University of Manchester researchers suggests. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-home-hospital.html Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:40:04 EDT news703400402 In the recently published article, "Primary Care, Specialists, and Hospitals: Bridging the Gaps in Communication and Coordination" in Medical Clinics of North America, Dawn M. Bravata, M.D., a research scientist at Regenstrief Institute, professor of neurology at Indiana University School of Medicine and physician at the Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, explores why effective communication across primary care, specialty care and hospitals is essential to improving patient outcomes. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-primary-specialists-hospitals-bridging-gaps.html Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:20:01 EDT news702899881 Medical error is one of the leading causes of death in the United States, and one organization believes those deaths can be stopped. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-foundation-medical-errors-year.html Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:00:01 EDT news702814678 A new study led by the University of Sheffield and published in BMJ Open has found that up to one-third of A&E attendances and two-fifths of acute admissions could potentially be managed through same-day emergency care (SDEC) and community settings—keeping patients safe and treated without an overnight hospital stay. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-reveals-day-ease-nhs-emergency.html Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:40:01 EDT news702543038 Older adults discharged from hospital with a new prescription for a sedative, especially a benzodiazepine or antipsychotic, are at increased risk of falls and other negative consequences, according to new research published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-hospital-discharge-sedatives-linked-falls.html Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:01 EDT news701683021 Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University investigators developed an AI-based model that can identify hospitalized patients at risk of low blood sugar up to 24 hours before the condition occurs. The long short-term memory (LSTM) model, described in npj Digital Medicine, could help clinicians intervene earlier and prevent complications, including, in severe cases, seizures, coma and long-term heart arrhythmias. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-hospital-ai-tool-blood-sugar.html Sat, 27 Jun 2026 10:00:03 EDT news701691207 In 2016, the government of Rwanda began using drones to bypass the country's hilly terrain and speed up the delivery of blood products to hospitals. It was an ambitious project that officials hoped would both increase the survival rate of patients in critical need of transfusions and help hospitals better manage their valuable inventory of blood products. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-rwanda-drones-health.html Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:20:04 EDT news701604703 On a busy hospital ward, a nurse says "wonderful, wonderful" as a patient with dementia completes a task. It sounds simple, but moments like this can play an important role in how care gets done. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-dementia.html Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:00:01 EDT news701525876 Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have analyzed nearly 86,500 surgeries at Baystate Medical Center to identify the top factors that influence inefficiencies in surgeon schedules. Having an efficiently organized surgical schedule has the potential to lower costs and reduce surgeon burnout, which would also improve patient outcomes. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-surgeons-factors-hospital-efficiency.html Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:40:05 EDT news701525401