January 2008 News
January 2008
APIC launches Targeting Zero campaign
to eradicate preventable infections
In December the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) announced a series of new educational initiatives aimed at eliminating healthcare-associated infections, including Clostridium difficile-associated disease and three infections that the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has classified as preventable occurrences.
on periop teamwork training
A free Human Factors Tool Kit full of resources to help operating room managers develop and execute team training programs that enhance patient and clinical staff safety will be available online later this month from AORN.
APIC launches Targeting Zero campaign
to eradicate preventable infections
In December the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) announced a series of new educational initiatives aimed at eliminating healthcare-associated infections, including Clostridium difficile-associated disease and three infections that the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has classified as preventable occurrences.
Information
technology linked to better health outcomes
Patients treated at hospitals that use information technology
systems are more likely to have better health outcomes, according
to a new Florida State University study that appears in the
November/December issue of the Journal of Healthcare
Management.
on periop teamwork training
A free Human Factors Tool Kit full of resources to help operating room managers develop and execute team training programs that enhance patient and clinical staff safety will be available online later this month from AORN.