While The Joint Commission's official top-cited standards don't appear until each fall's Executive Briefings, a recent American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) conference revealed some int...

Does your organization have a formalized process for debriefing after an adverse event? And if so, is it working? For many organizations, reporting of adverse events can be problematic, with challen...

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...

In any organization's quality department there lives a nefarious, ever-present beast. It's usually in paper form and comprises a list of seemingly innocuous phrases or sentences and to the far right...

Experts outline changes to tracking and prevention of ventilator-associated events, along with hand hygiene best practices and commentary from The Joint Commission...

In this era of mergers, acquisitions, and the building of replacement hospital facilities, many survey coordinators are faced with maintaining an overall inventory of licenses, accreditations, and c...

While The Joint Commission's official top-cited standards don't appear until each fall's Executive Briefings, a recent American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) conference revealed some int...

In 2004, at the American College of Surgeons (ACS) conference in Boston, Joseph B. Cofer, MD, FACS, professor of surgery and the surgery residency program director at the University of Tennessee Col...

In light of a 2014 WHO report, one infectious disease expert is calling for more stringent oversight along with aggressive stewardship....

In a research report released in May by The RAND Corporation, entitled Promoting Patient Safety Through Effective Health Information Technology Risk Management, researchers from RAND Health, ECRI Ins...