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Phenelle Segal, RN CIC, is president of Infection Control Consulting Services based in Blue Bell, Pa.   Q: After reading the article "Safe Injection Practices Checklist: 12 Critical Rules to Follow," item #10 became a major topic of discussion at…

The following article is written by Daren Smith, RN, director of clinical services, for Surgical Management Professionals.   Are you in charge of coming up with meaningful quality improvement studies for your facility? Has the idea well run dry? QI…

Debate over how the Connecticut Medical Examining Board operates fires up as critics express concerns that the board is being too lenient with physicians who commit "egregious" patient safety violations, according to a Greenwich Time news report.

Here are 10 recent Becker's Operating Room Clinical Quality & Infection Control reports on hand hygiene which include tools you can download for use by your organization and resources you can use to improve your hand hygiene efforts and compliance.

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, in collaboration with the CDC, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology and the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America, prepared the "How-to Guide: Improving Hand Hygiene — A Guide for Improving Practices…

Joel B. Singer, MD, a physician with the Center of Ambulatory Surgery in Westport, Conn., says he expects the center to rectify 23 violations that state health department investigators cited during a visit in May, according to a Westport Now…

Johns Hopkins Medicine has developed a number of resources to help improve hand hygiene at its organizations.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers a free video showing the importance of practicing proper hand hygiene in places such as hospitals and other facilities.

The Joint Commission has published a fact sheet about its official "do not use" list of medical abbreviations.

The Hand Hygiene Resource Center has provided free "hand hygiene monitoring tools" as part of its efforts to provide resources to help educate physicians, clinicians, nurses and other staff about hand hygiene.