Following reports that a multiresistant form of Klebsiella pneumoniae had been found in Los Angeles County medical facilities, Kavita Trivedi, MD, medical epidemiologist at the California Department of Public Health's Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Initiative, spoke to the LA Times about…
ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification
In a blog posting on The Joint Commission website, Michael Kulczycki, executive director for The Joint Commission's Ambulatory Care Accreditation Program, writes about the importance of having the "ready to go" list assembled at the start of the survey.
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Two professors of Vanderbilt University's Graduate School of Management suggest medical errors occur so frequently in healthcare because healthcare organizations often lack the safety culture needed to maintain patient safety, according to a Vanderbilt Hustler news report.
Researchers found interventions employing social pressures have varying impact on hand-hygiene compliance, whereas interventions focusing on organizational culture demonstrate a stronger impact, according to a study published in Critical Public Health.
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Although bar code technology in medication administration can help prevent medication errors, misuse of the technology can also yield negative results and create new potential medication errors, according to a study published in the Annals of Pharmacotherapy.
A study which examined 72 published studies from the United States and United Kingdom found that reducing the number of hours worked by physicians to less than 80 a week had neutral effects on patient safety, according to a press…
Blue Chip Surgical Partners Vice President of Operations Regina E. Dolsen, RN, BSN, MA, outlines eight steps ambulatory surgery centers can take to reduce the likelihood of errors with look-alike/sound-alike drugs.
Researchers from Johns Hopkins found coupling an electronic prescription drug ordering system with a computerized method for reporting adverse events can dramatically reduce the number of medication errors in a hospital's psychiatric unit, according to a hospital news release.
Although contact precautions are necessary in some circumstances, some infection prevention specialists and healthcare providers believe there are limitations to the contact precautions approach and that the practices may actually be harmful to patients in some cases, according to an…