Complying with Compliance

Complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Complying With Evidence-Based Practice

The leading cause of death due to health care–associated infections is ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). The lack of clarity in the definition of VAP has made it difficult to execute and evaluate the effectiveness of prevention strategies. Beginning in 2013, hospitals were expected to implement a new surveillance definition algorithm to identify ventilator-associated events (VAEs). The Ins...

Complying with the hazard communication standard.

The goal of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) is to “ensure that the hazards of all chemicals produced or imported are evaluated and that information concerning their hazards is transmitted to employers and employees.” You can communicate the information through a comprehensive hazard communication program, which should include contai...

Complying with the Rules of Asimov

Social systems are calling attention to adequate sets of rules as e.g. to comply with the rules of Asimov as a codex [BF05]. In the context of Multiple Sensor Data Fusion (MSDF) a variety of interacting (logical) sensor agents might autonomously self-organize their part of complex tasks’ organizational solution processes due to co-operations, communications and co-ordinations. Even computationa...

Complying with the 2008 National Patient Safety Goals.

In 2003, the joint commission began publishing National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) and requiring accredited health care organizations to comply with these goals in an effort to reduce the number of medical errors. THE NPSGS are updated yearly with new requirements to promote specific improvements in patient safety. This article provides a review of the 2008 NPSGs and suggests ways in which in...