Hospitals must implement additional measures to scope reprocessing procedures amid ongoing safety concern regarding instrumentation, according to patient safety experts. Anything less is unacceptable.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 27, Issue 6
In one of the most impressive BoosterPaks released by The Joint Commission, the accrediting body explores the ever-evolving challenges surrounding high-level disinfection and sterilization.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 27, Issue 6
The hospital accreditation landscape has grown more crowded in the last several years, but one accreditor is working to make its recent acquisition of another as seamless as possible.
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices' (ISMP) recently released "2016?2017 Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Hospitals," which includes revisions to two existing best practices and five additional recommendations to reduce common medication errors.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 27, Issue 6
Last year, the Joint Commission's infection control (IC) standard IC.02.02.01 had the dubious honor of being the second-most cited standard for hospitals, critical access hospitals, and ambulatory care facilities. The standard requires organizations to lower infection risks...
The American College of Surgeons (ACS) released a much anticipated update to its "Statements on Principles" addressing both concurrent and overlapping surgeries.
Between 2010 and 2014, preventable patient harm has been reduced by 39%, or 2.1 million fewer patients harm. This accounts for the saving of 87,000 lives and $20 billion, says CMS Acting Administrator Patrick Conway, MD, MSc, and is an unprecedented step forward in patient safety.
