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Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

Study: use of high-risk antibiotics leads to increase in C. difficile infections

September 17, 2019
Infection Control, Quality & Errors

The increased prevalence of hospital-associated C. difficile infections is thought to be tied to higher...

Mac's Safety Space - Volume 13, Issue 9

If you don’t signal, how will I know where you want to go? Emergency management and its discontents (Just What You Needed)!

September 17, 2019
Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities
By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant

Kind of a mixed bag this week, though it all fits under the heading of emergency management, so here goes nothing…

A few weeks ago, USA Today ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 20, Issue 10

Fighting stress and burnout in your clinic

September 16, 2019
Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors, Healthcare Staff

Some of the biggest hazards facing medical staff (and the patients they treat) are lack of rest, long hours, and stressful conditions.

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 20, Issue 10

Too many antibiotics given in pneumonia treatment

September 16, 2019
Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

Giving patients “too much” ultimately increased their risk of adverse events.

Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 1, Issue 10

Q&A: ISMP president discusses medication safety

September 16, 2019
Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

Michael R. Cohen, RPH, MS, ScD (hon.), DPS (hon.), FASHP, founder and president of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), discusses the current state of medication safety. 

Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 1, Issue 10

Expect renewed focus on post-discharge suicides with new SE categories

September 16, 2019
Behavioral & Mental Health, Patient Safety, Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Quality & Errors

Expect even more focus on how hospitals help patients at risk of suicide soon after discharge, now that two suicide-related categories have been shown to make up the top five sentinel events for the first half of 2019.

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 20, Issue 10

An El Paso hospital trained for a mass shooting

September 10, 2019
Workplace safety

Then they got the real thing

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

What can we do about medical device security?

September 10, 2019
Environment and Facilities, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

The risks range from exposing patients’ sensitive data to outright hijacking of devices, with potentially lethal consequences.

Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 1, Issue 10

Prepare now to avoid costly occupational exposures later

September 10, 2019
Infection Control, Patient Safety

In just eight months in 2019, measles cases spread to more than 30 states. Even if your state isn’t one of those, it’s worth your time to review outbreak preparations for both inside and outside your facility.

Mac's Safety Space - Volume 13, Issue 9

Ground Control to Major Compliance: EOC, baby!

September 10, 2019
Environment and Facilities, Physical environment
By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant

As September brings around the unwinding of summah, it also brings around The Joint Commission’s annual state of compliance sessions in locations across the country,...

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