Quality & Patient Safety Articles by Topic: National Patient Safety Goals
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 9, September 1, 2010
After The Joint Commission released its National Patient Safety Goal concerning handoff...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 31, August 4, 2010
The NPSGs are complex. Let us simplify.
Top healthcare experts present their analysis of...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 7, July 1, 2010
The July issue contains the following stories:
Maryland program provides road map for...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 7, July 1, 2010
Although the 2010 National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) are a much smaller set than last...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 26, June 30, 2010
In last week's issue of Joint Commission Online The Joint Commission announced it was revising a...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 6, June 1, 2010
This issue contains articles about the ANCC's Magnet Recognition Program and how it has an effect...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 6, June 1, 2010
Q: What type of emphasis does The Joint Commission place on the National Patient Safety Goals...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 14, April 7, 2010
The Joint Commission has announced the field review of its revised medication reconciliation...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
This issue contains articles about human factors engineering, suicide risk assessment, rapid...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
Identifying patients at risk for suicide has been a requirement of the National Patient Safety...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
Over the past five years, rapid response teams (RRT) have been brought to the forefront of American...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 9, March 3, 2010
The March issue of Briefings on Patient Safety has been posted to the Patient Safety Monitor. This...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
This issue contains articles about medical interpreter certification, patient safety awareness...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
Since 2002, the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) has sponsored Patient Safety Awareness...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
The Joint Commission has released the 2010 National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG), announcing to the...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
This issues has articles concerning the 2010 National Patient Safety Goals, options for patient...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
This issue contains stories about The Joint Commission's 2010 National Patient Safety Goals, a...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 40, October 7, 2009
The Joint Commission released the 2010 National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) last week, announcing...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 7, July 1, 2009
The 2009 National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) include many changes. Since the start of this year...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 20, May 20, 2009
The Joint Commission has asked the field to review and comment on revisions to the 2009 National...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
Q: Do you have advice for how we should handle National Patient Safety Goal 13.01.01 in all...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
Staff members at Abington (PA) Memorial Hospital knew their handoff process could use some work...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
The Joint Commission has announced some significant changes concerning its National Patient Safety...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
The March issue of Briefings on Patient Safety covers a few topics. We discuss The Joint...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 12, March 25, 2009
The Pennsylvania Department of Health has awarded the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine a...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 1, January 1, 2009
Every year, 30,000–62,000 patients die as the result of central line–associated...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 52, December 24, 2008
A new study shows that reconciling patient medications during hospitalization is an important...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 12, December 1, 2008
When Minnesota’s hospitals outwardly recognized in 2007 that the state’s process for...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 46, November 12, 2008
The Joint Commission has released an FAQ on National Patient Safety Goal NPSG.01.01.01 and a series...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 11, November 1, 2008
Hospitals are rolling out family-activated rapid response teams (RRT) in conjunction with the...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 11, November 1, 2008
For those facilities watching the clock wind down on the implementation year given by The Joint...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 11, November 1, 2008
Part of Goal #7 of The Joint Commission’s 2009 National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) includes...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 43, October 22, 2008
Although its price tag would likely be $11 billion, unique patient identifiers (UPI) would...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 10, October 1, 2008
The Joint Commission is set to survey hospitals’ anticoagulant therapy programs in January...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 10, October 1, 2008
Red, green, yellow, purple, and pink—these are the colors of one wristband color system...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 40, October 1, 2008
The Joint Commission has released its latest Sentinel Event Alert targeting anticoagulant...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 9, September 1, 2008
Keeping medications safe is not a new concept for most hospitals. The Institute of Medicine report...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 9, September 1, 2008
With the release of the 2009 National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) came some cumbersome...
