Last month, the White House convened a special forum on antibiotic stewardship in which more than 150 healthcare organizations, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and The Joint Commission, and announced increased efforts to promote effective antibiotic stewardship within...
The Joint Commission and the American Society for Healthcare Engineering last week rolled out a new website to offer online resources and tools to help hospitals comply with the most challenging Life Safety and Environment of Care standards.
A new study finds that 85% of healthcare workers don’t comply with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations for removing personal protective equipment.
A new study found that not only does sepsis lead to the same amount of readmissions as heart attacks and congestive heart failure, the cost of sepsis treatment is more than both those conditions combined.
A survey of patients affected by medical errors found that a lack of trust in the healthcare system could lead patients and families to pursue a lawsuit.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 7
The Joint Commission released its list of top-cited standards for all of 2014 in April. Not surprisingly, the same standards around facilities and physical environment issues that appeared on the list in September covering the first half of 2014 also appear on the annual list.
