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Accreditation Connection

• An important reminder about your Accreditation Connection subscription

  Attention, Accreditation Connection subscribers: in just a few weeks, two of our most popular...

• Joint Commission launches stroke education and awareness program

  The Joint Commission has unveiled its latest entry in its Speak Up ™program. Released on...

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Accreditation Monthly

• Prepare for the Updated Electronic Application

  The Joint Commission announced in its November Perspectives that an updated electronic application...

• Having Trouble with Ambulatory Summary Lists?

  For patients receiving ambulatory care services on a multi-visit or continued basis such as...

• CMS & Alcohol-based Skin Prep in the OR - How do you know you’re managing the risks?

  With the increased attention on minimizing the risks of surgical fires, it seems like there was...

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Infection Control Weekly Monitor

• ICU CLABSI data available to consumers

  For the first time, the public now has access to how well a hospital’s ICU deals with central...

• IAC updates flu shot honor roll

  The Immunization Action Coalition has added 28 organizations to its Honor Roll for Patient Safety.

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Patient Safety Monitor Alert

• CMS publishes infection rate data online

  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published central line-associated...

• Cool app to help nurses, but does it foster bad habits?

  Robert Freeman, a registered nurse at Beth Israel Hospital in New York, designed an mobile app for...

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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition

• Ottawa Hospital continues improvement of patient safety

  On April 30, as part of a May 2008 initiative by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to...

• England: Despite high number of mistakes, patients told not to worry

  Burton's Queen's Hospital has suffered 26 serious untoward incidents (SUIs) in the past year, which...

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Patient Safety Quality Monthly

• Measuring Your Hand Hygiene Culture?

  Hand hygiene or sanitizing is one of those areas that continue to be with us, but it is not an easy...

• Are you rolling?

  In our world of patient safety and quality, we are inevitably dealing with analyzing and presenting...

• Push and Pull in the ED

  If your organization is working on improving patient flow—and who isn’t?—it is...