A new report from Health Quality Ontario and the Canadian Patient Safety Institute details 15 preventable events that should never happen in a hospital.
In the wake of recent outbreaks related to contaminated devices, the Food and Drug Administration last week issued new safety recommendations for healthcare facilities that reprocess flexible bronchoscopes.
When The Joint Commission released its list of the five most-cited standards for the first half of 2015, it was not surprising that infection control, specifically IC.02.02.01 (reduction of infection risk from equipment, devices, and supplies), jumped into the second spot. This is an excerpt...
A guide developed by Michigan researchers provides color-coded charts to help healthcare professionals select the correct intravenous catheter and prevent infections.
Wrong-patient, wrong-site, or wrong-procedure errors top the list of sentinel event statistics reported to The Joint Commission through the second quarter of 2015.
This guest column from Elizabeth DiGiacomo-Geffers, RN, MPH, CSHA, discusses how to put together an antibiotic stewardship program. This is an excerpt from an article in Briefings on The Joint Commission.
The Joint Commission is looking for input on revisions to its National Patient Safety Goal on the prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infections.
