SDW news brief: Joint Commission unveils wrong site surgery prevention tool
Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, July 8, 2011
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With wrong-site surgeries occurring an estimated 40 times a week in the U.S., the Joint Commission teamed up with several hospitals to nail down precisely where and how these mistakes keep happening.
Now it has a tool that it says can help hospitals discover the flaws in their processes that can lead to irreversible or life-threatening mistakes.
With the Joint Commission's Targeted Solutions Tool, which uses Robust Process Improvement methods, hospitals and surgical centers "will be able to follow some very simple sets of instructions with an electronic application available through every organization's secure electronic connection with the Joint Commission," said Mark Chassin, MD, Commission president at a news briefing. The tool measures each organization's risk "at the time of scheduling, in the pre-op area, and in the operating room."
Recommended checkpoints to eliminate these adverse events are being piloted tested by the eight participating hospitals and are expected to be added to the tool late this summer, the commission announced. Then they will be pilot tested to prove their effectiveness in different types and sizes of hospitals as well as ambulatory surgery centers and other care settings.
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Source: HealthLeaders Media
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