Nearly 200 stakeholders, who convened at Premier healthcare alliance and the Safe Injection Practices Coalition’s open meeting, developed 22 safe injection practices. Proceedings, background materials ...

Ambulatory surgery centers have made significant strides over the past several years in improving their infection prevention efforts, says Phenelle Segal, RN CIC, president of Infection Control ...

Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Group Publishes Briefing on Safe Injection Practices The Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation has released a briefing on safe injection practices, including ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Safe Injection Practices Coalition have released new educational tools on safe injection practices. The materials include a training presentation ...

New guidance published in Anaesthesia (the journal of the Association of Anaesthetists) provides clear advice to reduce avoidable errors on all steps of the pathway involving injectable medications ...

{mosads}The agency believes the figure does “not represent the full extent” of the trend because it is difficult to link infections to specific healthcare facilities. In its report, the GAO ...

Safe injection sites for opioid users may soon be permitted in three California cities after the state’s senate passed a bill authorising their use for a pilot programme. The new law would allow the ...