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 ...

Ambulatory surgery centers have made significant strides over the past several years in improving their infection prevention efforts, says Phenelle Segal, RN CIC, president of Infection Control ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Safe Injection Practices Coalition have released new educational tools on safe injection practices. The materials include a training presentation ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers a free, downloadable checklist to help improve compliance to safe injection practices. The checklist, which can be utilized in both inpatient and ...

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A needlestick injury is a percutaneous piercing wound typically caused by a needlepoint, resulting in exposure to potentially harmful body fluids, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Supplies are shown on a desk at Safer Inside, a realistic model of a safe injection site in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — California Governor Gavin Newsom ...

Detroit Police have arrested a suspect following an hours-long standoff at a home on Mark Twain Street on the city’s west side, after a shooting that left a teenager hospitalized Saturday afternoon.

(AP) - For the first time, the U.S. government will pay for a large study measuring whether overdoses can be prevented by so-called safe injection sites, places where people can use heroin and other ...