January 2016 • Vol. 2016 No. 1
Also Inside
Study Uncovers New
Best Practices to Avoid
CLABSIs in Pediatric
Patients
p. 13
Unconventional Methods
Improve Hand Hygiene
in One Hospital Study
p. 14
Clinical Workstations
Often Overlooked
During Cleaning: 3
Study Findings
p. 15
BECKER'S
Infection Control & Clinical Quality
Featured
NPSF: 8 Tips to Create a
Total Systems Approach
to Patient Safety
p. 11
52 Hospitals With the
Lowest Readmission
Rates
p. 21
Discharge Summaries:
The Key to
Improving Physician
Communication,
Reducing Readmissions
p. 22
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SAVE THE DATE
10 Top Patient Safety Issues for 2016
Are Hospitals Lowering
Readmissions or Just
Putting More Patients Under
Observation?
Analysis from e Wall Street Jour-
nal suggests patients are still reenter-
ing the hospital frequently post-dis-
charge, even though readmission rates
have dropped.
Workplace Culture Proves
Essential to Improving
Surgical Outcomes
An organization's safety culture
has a measurable effect on patients'
outcomes aer surgery, a study in
the Journal of the American College
of Surgeons found.
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Healthcare has no doubt made giant strides in patient safety in recent
years: According to an HHS report released in December, hospital-acquired
condition rates dropped 17 percent from 2010 to 2014, leading to 87,000 few-
er patient deaths in hospitals.
However, there is always room for improvement in the journey toward
zero patient harm. Several issues arose in 2015 that shed new light on patient
safety threats.
e Becker's Infection Control & Clinical Quality editorial team chose 10
patient safety issues for providers to consider in 2016, presented in no partic-
ular order, based on the events and trends from 2015.
