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FDA ban on powdered medical gloves now in effect

February 18, 2026

Patient Safety, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Joint Commission now surveying for compliance The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) ban on powdered medical gloves went into effect on January 18. It’s now forbidden to use, advertise, and marke...

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How Palomar Health reduced nuisance IV alarms

February 18, 2026

Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures

People can grow used to anything, even alarms. Such is the danger of alarm fatigue; when excessive and nuisance alerts cause healthcare staff to become desensitized. When this happens, healthcare staf...

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ISMP’s targeted medication safety best practices for 2017

February 18, 2026

Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

Editor’s note: The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) released its 2016–2017 Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Hospitals guide in December 2015. The first edition of the best p...

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Study: Postoperative complications are a major concern for hospitals

February 18, 2026

Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

A recent study sheds new light on the prevalence of postoperative complications. In November 2016, a study published in the British Journal of Anesthesia (BJA) found that each year there are 50 mil...

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Q&A: How to respond to the WHO's top 12 superbugs list

February 18, 2026

Infection Control, Patient Safety

Editor’s note: In February, The World Health Organization (WHO) published its first list of a dozen families of antibiotic-resistant “priority pathogens” that pose the greatest threat to humanity. ...

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Bringing universal suicide screening to your hospital

February 18, 2026

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

With suicide rates high and getting higher, hospitals and clinics need to revamp how they work with suicidal patients. The first step is developing a system to identify struggling patients so they can...

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ECRI: The rules on copying and pasting medical information

February 18, 2026

Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

In 2016, the ECRI Institute’s Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety released its Health IT Safe Practices: Toolkit for the Safe Use of Copy and Paste. The toolkit outlines the risks and benefits o...

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

February 18, 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...

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Keeping fungi at bay

February 18, 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...

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You’ve got harm:

February 18, 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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FDA ban on powdered medical gloves now in effect

How Palomar Health reduced nuisance IV alarms

ISMP’s targeted medication safety best practices for 2017

Study: Postoperative complications are a major concern for hospitals

Q&A: How to respond to the WHO's top 12 superbugs list

Bringing universal suicide screening to your hospital

ECRI: The rules on copying and pasting medical information

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

Keeping fungi at bay

You’ve got harm:

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