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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has set a 2005 patient safety goal for long-term settings to reduce the risk of influenza and pneumococcal disease.
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Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has determined that the laboratory is an essential service, meaning failure in the laboratory extends to failure in the hospital, a compliance consultant advises.
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Employers who want to do the right thing to confront musculoskeletal disorder hazards can expect more help from the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration with case studies of best practices and increased outreach.
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The National Advisory Committee on Ergonomics completed its two-year term with recommendations and these statements about ergonomics and musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs).
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For many hospitals, annual respirator fit-testing represents a costly and time-consuming burden. But these two hospitals found a way to manage fit-testing one by emphasizing just-in-time readiness, the other by expanding fit-testing into hospitalwide emergency preparedness. They shared their approach with Hospital Employee Health,
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has set patient safety goals for 2005 that include several high-profile infection control issues.
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A reprieve from federal enforcement of annual fit-testing was greeted by some hospitals like a holiday present from Congress, but it has scarcely registered at other facilities.
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Industrial hygienists insist annual fit-testing is essential to the proper use of respirators. Infection control practitioners argue tuberculosis patients, once identified and isolated, pose little risk to health care workers. But perhaps they agree on one point: Hospitals are doing too much fit-testing.
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With only one-third of priority groups receiving the influenza vaccine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urged midseason vaccination and expanded the groups eligible for vaccination.
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How hospitals test health care workers for tuberculosis infection would change fundamentally for the first time in 10 years under draft guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
