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The Joint Commission releases 2009 National Patient Safety Goals

Patient Safety Monitor, August 1, 2008

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The Joint Commission’s 2009 National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG), which were released in June, include four new goals concerning infection control and patient identification during blood transfusions and two new requirements to the medication reconciliation goal. Major changes to existing goals that concern patient education were made to medication reconciliation and the Universal Protocol (UP).

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