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Mac's Safety Space: Only a few shopping days left before the next phase of TJC's clinical alarm management wishes

Hospital Safety Insider, December 17, 2015

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Just in time for the holidays, our good friends at the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (more acronymically known as AAMI) have released an Alarm Compendium (isn't that a fancy title!) to assist healthcare organizations meet the challenges of (our other friends-isn't it good to have so many friends!) The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goal on Clinical Alarms for which Phase 2 (is it really Phase 2? I've kind of lost track since this the second iteration of the Patient Safety Goal, so why don't we call this v.2.2?) kicks in next month. I haven't had the chance to look through the whole thing, but I have a sneaking suspicion that we might be observing some of the practices and activities outlined in the Compendium as a benchmark for performance during the 2016 survey year (those of you who have been following this topic closely will recognize some of the 10 Ideas for Safe Alarm Management).

Read Steve's entire blog post here.

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