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 ...

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 ...

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 following article is written by Pamela Dembski Hart, CHSP, BS, MT (ASCP), principal of Healthcare Accreditation Resources. The nation is witnessing an alarming growth of patient-to-patient ...

Needle-sharing programs, also referred to as needle exchange or syringe services programs, are integral to public health efforts. These initiatives supply clean needles and syringes to individuals who ...

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 ...

Editors’ Note: Knowledgeable Brooklynites with insights into their own drug problems will sometimes find themselves drawn to a spot near the 125th Street subway and Metro North stations, far north of ...

An unnerving case of a St. Paul nurse practitioner reusing syringes and exposing 161 patients to infection risk shows that unsafe injection practices still occur in U.S. health care. But the reasons ...