Mac’s Safety Space: Joint Commission offers guidance, but no mandates, for patient-owned items
Hospital Safety Connection, October 21, 2009
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Mac writes in today’s posting that The Joint Commission doesn’t specify how to handle patient-owned equipment coming into the hospital, instead leaving the decision in your lap.
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