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Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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The 12 days of Christmas: Gifts we’d like to give healthcare this year

November 26, 2019

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

We’ve thought of some gifts we’d like to bestow upon the busy healthcare clinic workers in the country—if we had the power to do so. ...

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Thank you for being round pegs in a square world…

November 25, 2019

Environment and Facilities

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant As this is a somewhat shortened week (in complete recognition that safety never takes a holiday), I just wanted to briefly touch base to thank you all...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Use new delays to catch up to more stringent USP requirements

November 19, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Policies and Procedures, Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Quality & Errors

While the U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) announced another round of delays in September in implementing new requirements for pharmaceutical compounding, your local authority having jurisdiction (AHJ) may sti...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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CDC: Antibiotic-resistant infection problem is worse than originally thought

February 15, 2026

Infection Control, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that antibiotic-resistant (AR) bacteria and fungi cause more than 2.8 million infections and 35,000 deaths per year in the ...

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Polarity in patient safety

November 19, 2019

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

“It’s still shocking, frustrating, disappointing, the frequency to which we still do the wrong thing.” ...

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Kill complexity, save lives

November 19, 2019

Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

“When you start requiring silly things, and we think it’s silly and doesn’t make clinical sense, it’s not sustainable. And a process that’s not sustainable is an unsafe process.” ...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Florida storms: Flip phone training and other lessons learned from hurricanes past

November 19, 2019

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities

As Hurricane Dorian gained strength in the Atlantic in late August, hospitals and other healthcare organizations in Florida and other parts of the southern U.S. prepared for what then appeared would b...

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ECRI Institute, ISMP to Combine Efforts

February 15, 2026

Patient Safety

ECRI Institute and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) have signed an agreement to join forces and create a single patient safety entity. ...

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Use data transparency with IC outcomes to engage staff

November 19, 2019

Leadership & Finance, Quality & Errors

Engage staff in fighting hospital-acquired conditions by sharing data on infection prevention and other surveillance programs tracking patient harm ...

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Well that stinks! Or maybe it doesn’t…

November 18, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant I guess we can file this under the “You never know what’s going to pique someone’s interest” category. In last week’s Joint Commission E-Alert publ...

The 12 days of Christmas: Gifts we’d like to give healthcare this year

Thank you for being round pegs in a square world…

Use new delays to catch up to more stringent USP requirements

CDC: Antibiotic-resistant infection problem is worse than originally thought

Polarity in patient safety

Kill complexity, save lives

Florida storms: Flip phone training and other lessons learned from hurricanes past

ECRI Institute, ISMP to Combine Efforts

Use data transparency with IC outcomes to engage staff

Well that stinks! Or maybe it doesn’t…

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