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Briefings on Accreditation & Quality

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Q&A: What you need to know about compounding medicine

February 16, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities, Quality & Errors

The Joint Commission unveiled a new Medication Compounding Certification (MCC) program in January with the goal of reducing the harm stemming from drug compounding and ensuring compliance with U.S. Ph...

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Experts weigh in on CMS transparency proposal: Balancing public's right to know with quality

February 16, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Quality & Errors

Editor's Note: CMS deleted this proposed rule in August because it might have been prohibited under federal law. This April, CMS published its hospital inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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ISMP’s targeted medication safety best practices for 2017

February 16, 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...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Study: Postoperative complications are a major concern for hospitals

February 16, 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...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Bringing universal suicide screening to your hospital

February 16, 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...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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ECRI: The rules on copying and pasting medical information

February 16, 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...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Innovation in pursuit of high-reliability culture

February 16, 2026

Quality & Errors

The Institute of Medicine sent waves racing across the surface of American healthcare when it published To Err Is Human in 1999. The unsettling report suggested medical errors were killing at least 44...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Keeping fungi at bay

February 16, 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...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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You’ve got harm:

February 16, 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...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Right dose, right drug: WHO challenges hospitals to cut med errors in half

February 16, 2026

Quality & Errors

At the end of March, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced its third global safety initiative, the Global Patient Safety Challenge on Medication Safety, which calls on facilities to cut the ra...

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Q&A: What you need to know about compounding medicine

Experts weigh in on CMS transparency proposal: Balancing public's right to know with quality

ISMP’s targeted medication safety best practices for 2017

Study: Postoperative complications are a major concern for hospitals

Bringing universal suicide screening to your hospital

ECRI: The rules on copying and pasting medical information

Innovation in pursuit of high-reliability culture

Keeping fungi at bay

You’ve got harm:

Right dose, right drug: WHO challenges hospitals to cut med errors in half

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