CMS last week posted the annual update for the 2014 electronic clinic quality measures for eligible hospitals and professionals....

A new study found that almost half of U.S. hospitals are failing to take the required steps to prevent C. diff infections, which kill nearly 30,000 people annually....

The Joint Commission recently updated a slew of online FAQs to its hospital standards....

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In February, representatives from pulmonary medicine and patient safety organizations gathered with respiratory medicine thought leaders in a roundtable discussion hosted by the National Association...

More and more, accrediting and regulatory bodies are focusing on behavioral health and how it impacts overall patient care, as are many experts in the field of quality improvement. The reasons behin...

In public discussion, workplace violence often receives top billing as a hospital situation that is preventable?or at least should be preventable. Regulatory bodies and accreditation agencies treat ...

Recent carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae (CRE) outbreaks at two Los Angeles hospitals have raised serious questions regarding reprocessing procedures tied to duodenoscopes and the risks patien...

Workforce analytics can be considered the future of human resources. It is the new way of making people-related business decisions. Just as healthcare has focused more strenuously on evidence-based ...

Although patient safety data has played a larger role in dictating hospital and state initiatives, sometimes statistics are only one piece of the puzzle....