CDC Releases New Outpatient Safety Checklist July 14, 2011 Physician Resource CDC, outpatient safety, safety guidelines 0 Just as airline pilots are required to use safety checklists before taking off, so should medical facilities who are treating people on an outpatient basis, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday. The CDC issued a new set of safety checklist guidelines to reduce outpatient infections because it has found that multiple facilities aren’t adhering to standard infection prevention practices. “Patients deserve the same levels of protection in a hospital or any other health care setting,” said Michael Bell, deputy director of the CDC’s division of health care quality promotion. “Repeated outbreaks resulting from unsafe practices, along with breaches of infection control noted in ambulatory surgical centers during inspections by the (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) indicate the need for better infection prevention.” Source: Kaiser Health News, July 13, 2011 Comments are closed.
