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New Patient Safety Goals focus on infection prevention
Quality Improvement Report, August 1, 2008
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Revised elements of performance (EP) for medication reconciliation and the Universal Protocol™ (UP) worry some in the field, but the addition of new requirements for reducing healthcare-associated infections (HAI) has so far not stirred up a lot of angst.
Some safety advocates even say The Joint Commission’s new expectations for managing HAIs may lead to wider use of the same type of medical checklist that produced dramatic results in Michigan, where hospitals reduced catheter infections to zero and saved more than 1,500 lives and nearly $200 million.
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