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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.

The federal government, hospitals and health insurers are working together to reduce the high incidence of preventable readmissions, which the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality says clocks in at 4.4 million annual, according to a Wall Street Journal news…

Four patient safety bills, aimed at increasing transparency at hospitals, are awaiting action, according to a Las Vegas Sun news report.

Here are 10 reports recently published by the Becker's family of publications on studies concerning patient safety and quality of care issues.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has created three free, downloadable posters relating to sharps safety to help healthcare facilities prevent needlesticks and other sharps-related injuries to healthcare personnel.

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has signed into law the Patient Safety Act of 2011, which allows the implementation of a prescription drug monitoring program aimed at stamping out prescription drug abuse, according to a Bryan County News report.

Twelve California hospitals have been penalized with varying fines for failing to meet licensing requirements that caused or was likely to cause serious injury or death to patients, according to a department news release.