Surgeries that do not involve the insertion of an implantable device should be monitored for surgical site infection for the first ____________ following the procedure. Surgeries that involve an implantable device should be monitored for site infection for _____________.
The Joint Commission now requires organizations to collect data for six mandatory inpatient measures to meeting performance measure requirements for its disease-specific care advanced certification in heart failure.
In a memo dated October 31, 2014, the CMS Center for Clinical Standard and Quality/Survey and Certification Group targeted patient safety in a number of announcements.
Specifically, the memo addresses the 2015 Hospital Patient Safety Initiative (PSI). First, the...
Few health emergencies have the ability to ignite such widespread panic as a potential epidemic. In the previous decade, hospitals have dealt with public health scares surrounding SARS, bird flu, and H1N1, but in 2014, Ebola has moved front and center in the U.S., a country that previously...
