A video depicting an animated man’s harrowing experience with the healthcare system, including an avoidable unsafe injection, is the grand prize winner of the third annual Film Festival at the of the ...

More than 9 percent of primary care organizations and 10 percent of ambulatory surgery centers have deficiencies in their safe injection practices, according to the Accreditation Association for ...

The Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation has released a briefing on safe injection practices. Unsafe injection practices can lead to serious cases of patient harm, such as outbreaks of viral ...

“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 ...

The ASC Quality Collaboration offers a free toolkit containing resources for safe injection best practices in ambulatory surgery centers. The toolkit includes a self-assessment worksheet, modeled on ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Joint Commission wants healthcare organizations to pay more attention to risks associated with improper use of injectable medicines, and to do something about the problem. "Patients visiting a ...

Credit: Getty Images. Supervised self-injection practice in the clinic to simulate adolescents' use of an epinephrine autoinjector to manage food allergy anaphylaxis offers immediate improvements in ...

A local medical office that was shut down due to unsafe injection practices may reopen after changes have been made, according to a statement from the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department.