Safe Home Care and Hospitals

Our research promotes practices, products, and policies that address occupational safety, environmental safety, and patient safety in both home care and hospitals.

WHAT'S NEW

Read our Summer 2017 update to find out what's new in the project.

Publicly Available Research

Many of the Safe Home Care Project's peer-reviewed articles are available to the public via open access (can be read, downloaded, and shared at no cost). Here are some of the most recent open access publications:

• Safety Risks Among Home Infusion Nurses and Other Home Health Care Providers - Journal of Infusion Nursing in July/August 2017.
• Risk of sharps injuries among home care aides: Results of the Safe Home Care survey - American Journal of Infection Control in April 2017.
• Occupational health of home care aides: results of the safe home care survey - Occupational and Environmental Medicine in April 2016.
• Understanding sharps injuries in home healthcare: The Safe Home Care qualitative methods study to identify pathways for injury prevention - BioMed Central Public Health in April 2015.
• A growing fire hazard concern in communities: Home oxygen therapy and continued smoking habits - New Solutions in March 2015.
• Cleaning and disinfecting environmental surfaces in health care: Toward an integrated framework for infection and occupational illness prevention - American Journal of Infection Control in March 2015.