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 ...

Increasing education on injection safety, enforcing clinical policies and monitoring adherence can help hospitals curb unsafe injection practices, according to Pharmacy Times. Harmful infection ...

A new set of recommendations from the United Kingdom aims to establish best practice for injecting insulin and other diabetes medications. The Forum for Injection Technique (FIT) was founded in 2009 ...

“We want to do no harm. We don’t expose the patient or provider to any avoidable risk and we want to ensure that the practice does not produce dangerous waste. Injection safety has to be a part of the ...

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Epocrates, Inc. are educating healthcare professionals about safe injection practices conveniently and ...

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 ...

New EULAR recommendations for the intra-articular (IA) treatment of arthropathies aim to facilitate uniformity and quality of care for this mainstay of rheumatologic practice, according to a report on ...

Nearly 70 people have been recommended to receive testing for hepatitis B and C and HIV after they received flu shots from syringes that had been reused. Nearly 70 people have been recommended to ...