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 ...

The Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation has released a briefing on safe injection practices, including specific recommendations for risk assessment, policy development and performance ...

An infographic created by the One & Only Campaign explains four key practices necessary for safe injections. The infographic is one of the new resources on safe injection best practices the CDC and ...

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 ...

The Minnesota Department of Human Services is accepting proposals from groups that want to operate safe recovery sites. The request for proposals closes this month, and grantees are expected to be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Safe injection sites for opioid users may soon be permitted in three California cities after the state’s senate passed a bill ...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco plans to try to thread a legislative needle to allow the opening of safe injection sites in the city. Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Hillary Ronen announced Wednesday ...

(*This story was updated at 9:43 a.m. on Friday, April 5, 2024 to correct a quotation from a spokesman for City Manager Eric Batista.) As deaths caused by opioid overdoses continue to rise yearly in ...