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.
The ability of a hospital or health system to deliver quality clinical, financial, and operational outcomes is highly contingent upon the availability and use of a variety of resources, including supplies, equipment,
and technology, the physical plant that houses these items, and the...
A study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association found that do-not-resuscitate (DNR) are not factored out of quality rankings for hospitals.
