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The Joint Commission has made both patient education and informed consent priorities in the past few years. Meanwhile, end of life choices and life support controversies have made year-end headlines...

The CMS last week issued another clarification of its two midnight rule, but hospitals say the policy remains faulty....

Encouraging healthcare workers to get their flu shots has been a patient safety and quality of care issue for years. Mandatory public reporting of this hospital quality measure is finally moving the n...

When it comes to blood clots in surgical patients, "vigilant hospitals get penalized because [when] they look more, they find more. Their rankings look atrocious," says the author of a repor...

After decades of discussion, the use of restraints and seclusion in healthcare is still a hot topic. ...

This guest column from Elizabeth DiGiacomo-Geffers, RN, MPH, CSHA, discusses how to put together an antibiotic stewardship program. This is an excerpt from an article in Briefings on The Joint Commiss...

When the OpenNotes initiative first began in 2010, it consisted of just over 100 primary care physicians in three medical centers. ...

When the hospital prepares food for its patients, it must prepare the food under certain conditions. What are these conditions?...

In what could be called one of the better Sentinel Event Alerts (SEA) released in recent years, The Joint Commission has taken aim at tubing misconnections in its August 20 release of "Managing...