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Prepare now for anticoagulation requirement
Quality Improvement Monitor, December 21, 2007
Even though hospitals have all of 2008 to prepare for the new National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) requirement for anticoagulation therapy, they had better start preparing now or face a rocky road at survey time.
"If you only do planning for 2008, when it comes January 2009, when you're expected to have a house-wide, fully operational anticoagulation program, you're just not going to get that done, unless you start earlier," says Kurt Patton, MS, RPh, former executive director of accreditation services for The Joint Commission (formerly JCAHO) and principal of Patton Healthcare Consulting, LLC, in Glendale, AZ.
The new requirement is NPSG 3E, which calls on hospitals to reduce the risk of patient harm associated with anticoagulation therapy. The requirement will be phased in throughout 2008, with full implementation expected by January 2009.
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