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 ...

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 ...

Safe Injection Practices Checklist: 12 Critical Rules to Follow Ambulatory surgery centers have made significant strides over the past several years in improving their infection prevention efforts, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. For the first time, the U.S. government will ...

For the first time, the U.S. government will pay for a large study measuring whether overdoses can be prevented by so-called safe injection sites, places where people can use heroin and other illegal ...

The following article is written by Pamela Dembski Hart, CHSP, BS, MT (ASCP), principal of Healthcare Accreditation Resources. The nation is witnessing an alarming growth of patient-to-patient ...

A needlestick injury is a percutaneous piercing wound typically caused by a needlepoint, resulting in exposure to potentially harmful body fluids, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...