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Accreditation Connection

• Greeley Reflections

  Each week, a senior consultant from The Greeley Company's Center for Healthcare Accreditation will...

• Bar codes on patient arm bands to improve safety and prevent medical errors

  Polk County hospitals in Florida are using bar-code technology at the bedside to help improve...

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Accreditation Monthly

• Blanket Warmers, What Is Safe?

  When completing readiness assessments, I have noticed much disparity in the temperature of blanket...

• Problem Lists - What is Required?

  When on-site assessing ambulatory care for standard compliance, I am often asked about what is...

• Policies: Say What You Do and Do What You Say

  There is sometimes a tendency to want to write everything down in great detail, but more may not be...

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Patient Safety Monitor Alert

• RI hospital commits fifth wrong-site surgery since January 2007

  Staff members at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, RI, have committed the facility's fifth...

• Tamiflu ® shortage sparks dosing confusion at some facilities

  The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority has issued an advisory regarding the use of Tamiflu in...

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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition

• Ask the expert: How can we reduce the number of medical staff committees?

  Medical staffs can reduce the number and size of committees by combining them and their functions...

• Ottawa Hospital continues improvement of patient safety

  On April 30, as part of a May 2008 initiative by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to...

• England: Despite high number of mistakes, patients told not to worry

  Burton's Queen's Hospital has suffered 26 serious untoward incidents (SUIs) in the past year, which...

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Patient Safety Quality Monthly

• Zero-Tolerance Rules: Can they work?

  This month there was an interesting article in The New York Times about a 6-year-old boy who was...

• Leadership Sentinel Event Advisory

  Last month, The Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert titled “Leadership Commitment...

• Policies, Procedures & Competencies - Oh My!

  “In our organization, we use policies and procedures as interchangeable words; they are just...