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...

The focus of The Joint Commission's most recent Sentinel Event Alert (SEA) is a challenge healthcare organizations have struggled with for years?preventing patient falls....

This index provides you with a handy listing of all the articles in Briefings on Accreditation and Quality (formerly known as Briefings on The Joint Commission) in 2015. ...

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 tec...

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....

The Florida Hospital Association (FHA) recently reported on the success of the largest hospital quality improvement project in Florida history....

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 customer...

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 supp...

A study published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings shows a rise in burnout rates and dissatisfaction with work-life balance (WLB)....

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....