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Hospitals Can Improve Their Infection Prevention Strategies, Study Finds

 A new review of 144 studies found that healthcare-associated infections (HAI) can be reduced by as much as 55% through the implementation of evidence-based infection prevention and control strategies.

Briefings on Accreditation and Quality

The future of infection prevention

As infection prevention challenges evolve—such as emerging infectious organisms and resistance—healthcare organizations must focus on preventing hospital-acquired infections and ensuring better patient outcomes.

ECRI: Most wrong-patient errors are preventable

Despite there being a number of methods to correctly identify patients, wrong-patient procedures still occur with distressing frequency. Many if not all of these errors are preventable, yet they still came in third on this year’s sentinel event list.


 

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Webinar: Are You Ready? Targeting Hot Spots in Hospital Compliance

Wednesday, September 26, 2018 1:00 – 4:00 pm Eastern In this three-hour virtual workshop, learn about the hot spots in hospital compliance in such areas as ligature risk, high-level disinfection and sterilization, titration and therapeutic duplication, sterile compounding and USP 797, management of dialysis programs (including infection control), training and competencies, and common problems within the environment of care and life safety. In highlighting the top noncompliant standards, our compliance experts will take you through photographic illustrations of common problems; they’ll also help you identify the trouble areas in your hospital through an interactive process. Register today!
 


 

Editor's Picks

The CMS Compliance Crosswalk, 2018 Edition

August 28, 2018


 

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