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For many hospitals, encouraging health care workers (HCWs) to receive the flu vaccine is an annual exercise in futility.
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In a major new emphasis on patient safety, the JCAHO is warning that failure to keep track of the medications needed by transferred patients is resulting in preventable deaths.
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An outbreak of mumps in Iowa has led hospitals to re-examine the immunization records of health care workers, with some checking for serologic evidence of immunity in employees who have had an exposure.
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HIV testing would become a routine part of health care under a proposed recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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When an accident occurs, the best way to prevent a recurrence is to ask a simple question: Why did this happen? But you don't want an easy answer.
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As hospitals across the country struggle to combat a highly virulent strain of Clostridium difficile, compliance with hand hygiene takes center stage as a primary defense.
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Alcohol-based hand gels have been an infection control success story. Health care workers are more likely to comply with hand hygiene and less likely to suffer from broken or raw skin from hand washing.
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These questions and answers were excerpted from the 2005 CDC "Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of TB in Health-Care Settings"...
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In February, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations provided some new answers to commonly asked questions about complying with its National Patient Safety Goal on hand hygiene.
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The five rules of causation are designed to improve the root-cause analysis (RCA) process by creating minimum standards for where an investigation and the results should be documented.
