A free safety assessment for staff is available from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality through its program “On the CUSP: Stop BSI,” which uses the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program ...

A nephrology unit at Detroit-based Henry Ford Hospital has lowered Clostridioides difficile infections by 90% since 2023. Leaders at the hospital credit the progress to the Comprehensive Unit-based ...

During the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) annual conference in Bethesda, Md. on Monday, the agency announced its preliminary findings of its nationwide patient safety project to ...

The American Hospital Association’s Health Research & Educational Trust announced (pdf) it has been awarded two contracts by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to improve surgical and ...

A study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that intensive care units that used the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program stopped central line-associated bloodstream infections for ...

A widely heralded Johns Hopkins safety initiative to reduce bloodstream infections in intensive care units (ICUs) was implemented in 30 states starting Feb. 1 and could save an estimated $3 billion ...

A prescribed set of hospital-wide patient-safety programs can lead to rapid improvements in the "culture of safety" even in a large, complex, academic medical center, according to a new study by ...

This is an excerpt from the HCPro book, Preventing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections, Second Edition. A variety of teams exist in the healthcare environment, and many of them can offer ...