Hospitals must implement additional measures to scope reprocessing procedures amid ongoing safety concern regarding instrumentation, according to patient safety experts. Anything less is unacceptable.
Between 2010 and 2014, preventable patient harm has been reduced by 39%, or 2.1 million fewer patients harm. This accounts for the saving of 87,000 lives and $20 billion, says CMS Acting Administrator Patrick Conway, MD, MSc, and is an unprecedented step forward in patient safety.
In April, a Pennsylvania patient was being treated for a urinary tract infection when her physicians discovered she had a strain of colistin-resistant E. coli. The discovery means an antibacterial-resistance exists for every type of antibiotic, creating the risk of an infection invulnerable to...
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Medscape News recently held a poll asking what healthcare workers if they approved of the accreditor’s decision to allow medical orders to be sent via text message.
Together with the American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association, The Joint Commission has developed a new certification program for facilities with acute stroke ready certification.
