ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Admission to a hospital when most of the beds are already full can be deadly for patients, according to a new University of Michigan Health System study showing high occupancy ...

Hospitals already overflowing this winter amid what experts have deemed a “quademic” could face even more occupancy issues and — deadly consequences — within the next decade. The nation is on track ...

The greatest risk of patients acquiring a C. diff infection didn't come, surprisingly, when hospitals were at their fullest. When researchers from the University of Michigan and RAND set out to ...

Patients are more at risk for acquiring a Clostridium difficile infection when a hospital is only moderately full versus at full capacity, according to a study published in the Journal of Hospital ...

Changes in the hospitalization rate or staffed hospital bed supply are needed to avoid reaching concerning thresholds, a new study finds. Hospital occupancy rates may be trending in a dangerous ...

March 10, 2010 — To varying degrees, higher hospital occupancy, lower nurse staffing levels, weekend admission, and admission during high seasonal influenza activity all independently increase the ...

Hospitals today spend a lot of time and effort to protect their patients from developing new infections while they're hospitalized - especially the most dangerous types that can threaten their health ...

Typical bed in a hospital. — Image by Peachyeung316 — CC BY-SA 4.0 Typical bed in a hospital. — Image by Peachyeung316 — CC BY-SA 4.0 The study by personal injury attorneys, Foster Wallace, submitted ...

Post the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. hospital occupancy rate climbed 11% compared to pre-pandemic levels largely because of a national reduction in staffed beds, a new UCLA study has found. From 2009 ...

And that point is 92.5 percent occupancy, according to a team of researchers at University of Cologne in Germany. They studied more than 82,000 patients in German hospitals. Among the 17 percent of ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. – As some states grip with a surge in new COVID-19 cases, some counties in Washington state continue to see an uptick but health experts say there’s no need to sound the alarm just yet.