The focus of The Joint Commission's most recent Sentinel Event Alert (SEA) is a challenge healthcare organizations have struggled with for years?preventing patient falls.
Five years after pharmaceutical experts began reviewing changes to sterile preparation requirements for pharmaceutical compounding, the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has released proposed regulatory updates aimed at preventing patient harm.
This index provides you with a handy listing of all the articles in Briefings on Accreditation and Quality (formerly known as Briefings on The Joint Commission) in 2015.
An environment where suicide risk reduction strategies have been implemented can delay spontaneous impulses and allows staff an opportunity to identify an impending crisis, to use de-escalation techniques to reduce the risk of a crisis, and intervene with the most appropriate course of...
How much of an impact does email have on patient health? According to a new Kaiser Permanente study published in The American Journal of Managed Care, email plays quite a large role.
A new Los Angeles Times report alleges that device maker Olympus Corp. knew about the risk of infection in its duodenoscopes for three years before issuing an alert to its American hospital customers.
The ability of a hospital or health system to deliver quality clinical, financial, and operational outcomes is highly contingent upon the availability and use of a variety of resources, including supplies, equipment,
and technology, the physical plant that houses these items, and the...
