The Occupational Safety and Health Administration offers a free fact sheet on how healthcare employees can protect themselves when handling contaminated sharps.
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality offers a free evidence-based handbook, designed to guide nurses' efforts in improving patient safety and healthcare quality.
The New Jersey Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers' Feb. 16 membership meeting will feature a keynote speech on personal injury protection fraud from Joseph Brennan, assistant commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance's Bureau of Fraud and…
Fourteen hospitals have agreed to pay more than $12 million combined to settle federal allegations that they defrauded Medicare by overbilling for kyphoplasty procedures, according to a news release from the Department of Justice.
Flagler Hospital in St. Augustine, Fla., has renewed its relationship with supply chain improvement company Provista for another three years, according to a release.
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Researchers found that the combination of auditing technology and staff feedback can drastically improve hand hygiene practices among healthcare personnel, according to a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Carolyn Clancy, MD, director of the Agency for Health Research and Quality, has written commentary in which she stresses patient safety culture can help mitigate damage for both patients and "second victims" after an adverse event has occurred.
Researchers have concluded that higher staffing levels and less missed nursing care can help prevent patient falls, according to research published in the Journal of Nursing Care Quality.
First Surgical Partners, which owns two ambulatory surgery centers and a general acute-care hospital, announced that its board of directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend on the company's common stock, according to a Market Watch report.
The increase in available premium intraocular lenses has made the informed consent process for cataract surgery more complex, Charles M. Zacks, MD, of the Maine Eye Center in Portland, Maine, told the audience at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute 50th…