Hugh Morgan is the quality assurance officer for Somnia Anesthesia Services, a physician-owned and -managed anesthesia management company servicing healthcare facilities, anesthesiologists and ...

Recent incidents of bacterial infections in patients linked to dirty arthroscopic shavers and endoscopes have spurred dramatic change in device reprocessing and sterilization strategies. Yet many ...

Editor’s note: Alice Brewer is the senior director of clinical affairs at PDI Healthcare. The latest list of hospitals facing federal penalties for poor quality has been released. Through hospital ...

In a hospital, there should be no more important concern than patient safety, and providing patients with the highest quality of care. Among other things, a hospital is responsible for assuring that ...

Objectives: This was the first attempt of the association representing all acute care hospitals in the Czech Republic to collect mutual data which might be used for quality assurance (QA) purposes and ...

The concepts of quality assurance and audits are two distinct ideas that serve the same purpose: improving quality, consistency and reliability in operations. Quality assurance is more of an abstract ...

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology provides original, peer-reviewed scientific articles for anyone involved with an infection control or epidemiology program in a hospital or healthcare ...