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.
After a year of increased scrutiny over infection control issues related to endoscope reprocessing, many hospitals will encounter another challenge: Thousands of machines used to wash and perform high-level disinfection of endoscopes will be recalled under an FDA order.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 27, Issue 1
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.
In July, doctors at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) performed the first hand transplant on a child. The 10-hour surgery, performed on an eight-year-old boy who had lost his hands and feet following a serious infection at the age of two, included 40 different surgeons, doctors...
After a year of increased scrutiny over infection control issues related to endoscope reprocessing, many hospitals will encounter another challenge: Thousands of machines used to wash and perform high-level disinfection of endoscopes will be recalled under an FDA order.
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.
