Infection Prevention: Compliance to Increasingly Robust Standards

Posted on 4/9/2010

Robert Edelstein, president, Millennium Surgical Corp., discusses how to achieve compliance to increasingly robust standards for improved patient safety, risk reduction and staff safety. The trend over the last five years has been a continued, dedicated effort to establishing standards and steps for improving patient safety. Major accreditation agencies have become increasingly active in establishing guidelines and are joined by hospitals and surgery centers in enforcing stricter adherence to practices that advance infection prevention. Despite many challenges, surgical services in operating rooms, sterile processing departments and ambulatory surgical centers are making excellent strides in infection prevention and patient safety.

Beckers ASC  Review April, 2010

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