The Association of periOperative Nurses recently released new recommended practices for specimen management, which provide expanded guidance as well as two new recommendations specifically related to breast cancer specimens.

Medicare's penalty program for excess hospital readmissions is among its most tenacious efforts to increase quality of care. Penalties are evaluated based on findings from Medicare's comprehensive measure of hospital readmissions and are reviewed annually.

Every year, approximately one in every 20 Americans, or about 12 million people, receiving outpatient care are misdiagnosed, according to a new survey by SERMO.

Implementing best practices to reduce readmissions is an important step, but the ability to measure whether and how much such interventions really affect readmissions is essential. That's where healthcare analytics comes into play.

A majority of physician leaders agree that greater transparency in healthcare will improve the relationship between patients and physicians, according to a survey by the American College of Physician Executives.

A team at the University of Leicester has developed an electronic-nose for sniffing out the Clostridium difficile bacteria, and published its results in Metabolomics.

Antimicrobial lock solutions are effective in reducing risk of central-line-associated bloodstream infections, according to a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

CMS investigators have arrived at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas to assess whether the problems that placed a patient in "immediate jeopardy" earlier this year have been fixed, according to a report by The Dallas Morning News.

Lack of standardization and workflow disruptions may contribute to low adherence to infection control policies in emergency departments, according to research from the American Journal of Infection Control.

  Lack of standardization and workflow disruptions may contribute to low adherence to infection control policies in emergency departments, according to research from the American Journal of Infection Control.