Far from a healthy shot in the arm, some injections carry more than medicine into the veins and bodies of patients. To date, more than 150,000 people have received letters after going to outpatient ...

{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 ...

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 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 ...

Given the lapses in infection control practices and misconceptions regarding unsafe injection practices described via this survey, academic settings, licensing bodies, and healthcare providers must ...

An unnerving case of a St. Paul nurse practitioner reusing syringes and exposing 161 patients to infection risk shows that unsafe injection practices still occur in U.S. health care. But the reasons ...

A study published in the American Journal of Infection Control analyzed the different infection practices carried out in U.S. healthcare settings, according to the study’s abstract. Researchers ...

The One & Only Campaign, led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Safe Injection Practices Coalition, offer four free safe injection posters. The One & Only Campaign is dedicated to ...

A hepatitis C outbreak stemming from unsafe injection practices at an ambulatory surgical center (ASC) in Nevada highlighted the potential for healthcare-associated infections in such facilities.

Adverse reactions from the unapproved injections are causing scarring, skin deformities, cysts, painful knots, and serious infections, the FDA said. Photo courtesy of Kaur et al/American Journal of ...