The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has developed a guide for patients to help them care for themselves when they leave a hospital, although the guide can be applied to other facilities including ambulatory surgery centers.
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Recent Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education limits aimed to enhance patient safety may compromise the quality of physicians' training and patient safety, according to a study by Mayo Clinic researchers published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
Study results showed healthcare professionals sometimes fail to speak up about potential safety risks, even when they are alerted through a safety tool or checklist, according to a news release by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.
Scott Fridkin, MD, and Russell Olmsted, CIC, say that surveillance is an important tenet of infection prevention within healthcare organizations and must evolve as the healthcare industry comes under increased scrutiny over outcomes and performance, according to an article published…
The following article is written by Mary Sturm, RN, MBA, senior VP of clinical operations, and Daren Smith, RN, director of clinical services, for Surgical Management Professionals.
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The 2010 Leapfrog Hospital Survey results indicate steady improvement in some areas, such as the number of hospitals adopting never-events policies and implementing computerized physician order entry to help prevent medication errors, according to a news release.
Study results suggest that although there have been significant advancements in sharps safety technology and legislation to support sharps safety, sharps-related injuries actually increased during the same time period nonsurgical injuries decreased, according to an AORN Journal article.
Patients may not be taking their prescriptions in an efficient manner because of confusing label instructions, which can result in lowered patient adherence to proper medication regimens, according to a study published in Archives of Internal Medicine.
In an effort to protect consumers and healthcare providers, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has taken action against companies that manufacture, distribute, or market certain unapproved prescription oral cough, cold and allergy products, making it illegal to market these…
Congressional Republicans have proposed to cut the budget for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration by 20 percent, according to a report from NPR.