Some Patient Safety Data Admissible In Court Under Senate HELP-Passed Bill
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Free-flow protection measures to be taken with general-use and PCA intravenous pumps are highlighted in the 1Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations' 2004 national patient safety goals
You may also be interested in...
JCAHO Survey/Alert To Give Infusion Of Awareness On Pump Free-Flow Trends
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations plans to issue recommendations for improvement of hospitals and other sites that use infusion pumps capable of free flow but lack an acceptable risk management plan for the devices.
EU Regulatory Assessors Get AI Boost In Reaching Scientific Decisions
The European Medicines Agency is training scientific staff working for the European medicines regulatory network in how to use a new AI-powered search engine that allows them to easily retrieve information on regulatory precedents.
EU Parliament Stricter Than Council On Medicines And Medical Devices Packaging
The EU Parliament's Environment, Public Health and Food Safety committee takes a compromise position with regards to the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive. Medicines and medical devices should be exempt, but only until 2035, at which point the European Commission should check whether the development of materials and the recycling process have progressed, and may adjust this exemption accordingly.