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Patient Safety | The Joint Commission

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Review our National Patient Safety Goals® or sign up for our safety-related alerts and newsletter, Sentinel Event Alert and Quick Safety below. High Reliability National Patient Safety Goals Speak Up Campaigns Sentinel Events Patient Safety Resources Do Not Use List of Abbreviations Look-alike sound-alike drug list Advancing Effective Communication

10 Patient Safety Tips for Hospitals

https://www.ahrq.gov/patients-consumers/diagnosis-treatment/hospitals-clinics/10-tips/index.html

Patient Safety - World Health Organization

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/patient-safety

Patient Safety - a fundamental component for Universal Health Coverage. Safety of patients during the provision of health services that are safe and of high …

Worker Safety in Hospitals | Occupational …

https://www.osha.gov/hospitals

In 2019, U.S. hospitals recorded 221,400 work-related injuries and illnesses, a rate of 5.5 work-related injuries and illnesses for every 100 full-time employees. This is almost …

Patient Safety: What You Can Do to Be a Safe Patient

https://www.cdc.gov/hai/patientsafety/patient-safety.html

Time in the hospital can put you at risk for a healthcare-associated infection (HAI), such as a blood, surgical site, or urinary tract infection. Every day, patients get infections in …

20 years of patient safety | AAMC

https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/20-years-patient-safety

In 1999, in its pioneering report To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) revealed that as many as 98,000 patients died …

Holding Hospitals Accountable for Patient Safety

https://hbr.org/2021/08/holding-hospitals-accountable-for-patient-safety

The administration should advance the multi-stakeholder proposal to form a National Patient Safety Board, akin to the National Transportation Safety Board, as well …

5 Factors that Can Improve Patient Safety in …

https://www.rasmussen.edu/degrees/health-sciences/blog/patient-safety-in-hospitals/

Healthcare workers, medical associations and individual hospitals may have different definitions of patient safety—but it becomes obvious what patient safety isn’t when …

What Is a Safety-Net Hospital and Why Is It So Hard to …

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/what-is-a-safety-net-hospital-covid-19/

Safety-net hospitals face a number of longstanding challenges thrown into the spotlight by COVID-19, from competition with wealthier hospitals to uneven …

Roaches in the operating room: Doctors at HCA hospital in …

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/roaches-operating-room-hca-hospital-florida-rcna69563

On Dec. 7, 2021, more than a dozen surgeons convened a meeting at their hospital, HCA Florida Bayonet Point in Hudson, Florida. Their concerns about patient …