The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care developed toolkits to help physicians focus on patient safety.
The kits are designed to help minimize poor patient outcomes and promote safety.
Here's what you should know.
1. The kits focus on preoperative evaluation and safe injection practices.
2. Infection Control Consultant and Surveyor for AAAHC Marcia Patrick, MSN, said healthcare leaders are implementing advanced protocols and regulations to keep patient safety and outcomes at the forefront of decision making.
Healthcare organizations have struggled to maintain safe injection practices, she said. In the United States between 1998 and 2014, more than 700 patients contracted hepatitis B, hepatitis C or were infected with bacterial pathogens because of these unsafe practices. That's why making these protocols was so essential.
3. The AAAHC toolkit offers physicians a checklist of safe injection practices to help assess an organization's risk by identifying where inadequacies in the process exist.
Organizations can use the kit to develop a training plan to address any detected issues or to implement safer practices.
4. As for preoperative evaluation, the AAAHC made the toolkit to help ASC leaders with best practices for collecting preoperative medical history and to perform physical examinations to predict perioperative risks for complications, among other things.
The kit also has specific information for various tests for non-cardiac related surgery.
5. Both kits are available for $10 each at the AAAHC website.
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