Too many people are being exposed to life-threatening infections because clinicians fail to follow safe practices when administering medicine by injection or infusion. According to a recent study in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Increasing education on injection safety, enforcing clinical policies and monitoring adherence can help hospitals curb unsafe injection practices, according to Pharmacy Times. Harmful infection ...

Drug shortages and low reimbursement for pain procedures mean that providers are often tempted to cut corners, reusing needles and vials in order to save money. But the consequences can be ...

“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 ...

The number of patients involved in each ranged from as few as 25 who were injected with an influenza vaccine with a syringe that had been reused between patients in New York, to 8,690 ambulatory ...

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 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An HIV outbreak among children in Sindh, Pakistan, was associated with multiple recent injections or infusions, ...

New EULAR recommendations for the intra-articular (IA) treatment of arthropathies aim to facilitate uniformity and quality of care for this mainstay of rheumatologic practice, according to a report on ...