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Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Q&A: IHI and NPSF merge to push patient safety initiatives

February 17, 2026

Patient Safety

Editor’s note: In March, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) announced that they would merge starting May 1. The two organizations have bee...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Keeping fungi at bay

February 17, 2026

Infection Control, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

In March, The Washington Post ran an alarming story about a new strain of Candida auris (C. auris) fungus in U.S. hospitals. At presstime, there were more than 50 C. auris cases in the U.S., mostly cl...

Inside the Joint Commission

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Inside the Joint Commission, July 24, 2017

February 17, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

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Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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NQF launches opioid stewardship initiative

February 17, 2026

Nearly 2 million people suffer from prescription opioid disorder and the number of opioid prescriptions written annually has quadrupled in under two decades. ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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You’ve got harm:

February 17, 2026

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

A look at the Automated All Cause Harm trigger system The prevention of avoidable harms has been a goal of healthcare since day one, but it was given fresh life in 2010 when the Office of Inspector...

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Right dose, right drug: WHO challenges hospitals to cut med errors in half

February 17, 2026

Quality & Errors

At the end of March, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced its third global safety initiative, the Global Patient Safety Challenge on Medication Safety, which calls on facilities to cut the ra...

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Three keys to preventing workplace violence

February 17, 2026

Environment and Facilities, Leadership & Finance, Policies and Procedures, Workplace safety

This spring, Ann Scott Blouin, RN, PhD, FACHE, executive vice president of The Joint Commission, wrote a blog post detailing the need for a practical approach to healthcare’s endemic workplace violenc...

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CDC updates SSI guideline for the first time in 18 years

February 17, 2026

Climate Change, Cybersecurity & Technology, Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety, Health Equity, Healthcare Staff, Infection Control, Quality & Errors

In May 2017, the CDC released its new guideline for surgical site infection (SSI) prevention, the first such update since the turn of the century. Between 2006 and 2009, roughly 1.9% of surgical pr...

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Burned out or under the influence? What to do about impaired medical staff

February 17, 2026

Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

Editor’s note: By the time the general public hears about an impaired clinician, whether it’s a nurse, technician, or physician, it’s usually after something bad has already happened. The infamous cas...

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How to get readmission rates under control

February 17, 2026

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

To say readmissions are a big deal in medicine is a massive understatement. The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) was enacted in 2010 specifically to take on this problem and has imposed ...

Q&A: IHI and NPSF merge to push patient safety initiatives

Keeping fungi at bay

Inside the Joint Commission, July 24, 2017

NQF launches opioid stewardship initiative

You’ve got harm:

Right dose, right drug: WHO challenges hospitals to cut med errors in half

Three keys to preventing workplace violence

CDC updates SSI guideline for the first time in 18 years

Burned out or under the influence? What to do about impaired medical staff

How to get readmission rates under control

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