The focus of The Joint Commission's most recent Sentinel Event Alert (SEA) is a challenge healthcare organizations have struggled with for years?preventing patient falls.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 27, Issue 1
After a year of increased scrutiny over infection control issues related to endoscope reprocessing, many hospitals will encounter another challenge: Thousands of machines used to wash and perform high-level disinfection of endoscopes will be recalled under an FDA order.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 27, Issue 1
This index provides you with a handy listing of all the articles in Briefings on Accreditation and Quality (formerly known as Briefings on The Joint Commission) in 2015.
After a year of increased scrutiny over infection control issues related to endoscope reprocessing, many hospitals will encounter another challenge: Thousands of machines used to wash and perform high-level disinfection of endoscopes will be recalled under an FDA order.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 27, Issue 1
An environment where suicide risk reduction strategies have been implemented can delay spontaneous impulses and allows staff an opportunity to identify an impending crisis, to use de-escalation techniques to reduce the risk of a crisis, and intervene with the most appropriate course of...
How much of an impact does email have on patient health? According to a new Kaiser Permanente study published in The American Journal of Managed Care, email plays quite a large role.
A new Los Angeles Times report alleges that device maker Olympus Corp. knew about the risk of infection in its duodenoscopes for three years before issuing an alert to its American hospital customers.
