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Coronavirus fears drive medication adherence ups and downs

February 15, 2026

Patient Safety, Infection Control, Quality & Errors

The cost of poor medication adherence is tremendous—nearly $177 billion each year in direct and indirect healthcare costs—but the cost of nonadherence during the COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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How to update your restraint and seclusion policy

February 15, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Leadership & Finance, Natural & Manmade Disasters, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Workplace safety

Kevin Ann Huckshorn, PhD, MSN, RN, CADC, ICRC, a national behavioral health consultant with years of experience in hospital settings and now the director of evidence-based practices and programs for W...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Stroke survival rates drop precipitously in remote areas

February 15, 2026

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

Compared with patients hospitalized in urban areas, however, the study found that the risk of death was about 5% higher for patients hospitalized in large towns (with populations of 250,000 to 1 milli...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Q&A: Many hospitals still don’t have drug diversion programs

February 15, 2026

Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

The following Q&A resulted from a conversation PSQH had with Tom Knight, CEO of Georgia-based Invistics, a provider of cloud-based software solutions that improve healthcare inventory visibility a...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Blood Test Claims to Find Cancer 4 Years Earlier than Current Methods

July 26, 2020

Patient Safety

The blood test, Called PanSeer, detected cancer in 91% of people who had been asymptomatic when the samples were collected and were diagnosed with cancer one to four years later. ...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Coronavirus Antibodies Drop Precipitously 3 Months After Mild Cases

February 15, 2026

Infection Control, Patient Safety, Workplace safety

The prevalence of antibodies for people recovering from a mild cases of COVID-19 dropped precipitously after less than three months, according to a research letter published this week in The New Engla...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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A prescription for social determinants of health

February 15, 2026

Behavioral & Mental Health, Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

New programs support physicians in addressing these key drivers of health outcomes It’s become more widely accepted that social determinants of health (SDoH)—the environmental conditions in which p...

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New IHI Chief Executive: ‘There is No Quality Without Equity’

February 15, 2026

Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors, Infection Control

Equity is an underpinning consideration in efforts to improve U.S. healthcare, the new president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement says. Kedar Mate, MD, was named chief executive ...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Does TJC require hospitals to provide patient education on COVID-19?

February 15, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Patient Safety, Infection Control

In general, both CMS and The Joint Commission (TJC) require education for patients as needed about the patient’s particular condition(s). CMS requires certain patient education under medication manage...

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(Un)safe restraints: A method of last resort

February 15, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Workplace safety

While healthcare and law enforcement do not perform the same job, staff in both industries have many similarities. Both work in high-stress environments. Both often work with people who are upset, sca...

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Coronavirus fears drive medication adherence ups and downs

How to update your restraint and seclusion policy

Stroke survival rates drop precipitously in remote areas

Q&A: Many hospitals still don’t have drug diversion programs

Blood Test Claims to Find Cancer 4 Years Earlier than Current Methods

Coronavirus Antibodies Drop Precipitously 3 Months After Mild Cases

A prescription for social determinants of health

New IHI Chief Executive: ‘There is No Quality Without Equity’

Does TJC require hospitals to provide patient education on COVID-19?

(Un)safe restraints: A method of last resort

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