Safe Injection Practices Checklist: 12 Critical Rules to Follow Ambulatory surgery centers have made significant strides over the past several years in improving their infection prevention efforts, ...

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 ...

Even as health care workers and patients are becoming more informed on the absolute necessity of always using safe injection practices, incidents involving unsafe injection practices continue to occur ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday vetoed a measure from a Bay Area lawmaker that would have allowed the opening of safe injection sites, where opioid users can legally inject drugs in ...