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Health care organizations face six new Patient Safety Goals. (Set by JCAHO).
Thousands of health care organizations nationwide are now required to implement a number of patient safety measures or risk citations from the nation's largest accrediting body.
The National Patient Safety Goals, developed by the joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, fall into six categories: identification of patients, miscommunication among caregivers, wrong-site surgery, unsafe use of infusion pumps, medication mix-ups, and problems with equipment alarm systems.
The six patient safety goals include 11 required actions that all of JCAHO's 17,000 accredited organizations must follow. JCAHO's accredited organizations include hospitals, HMOs, nursing homes, laboratories, ambulatory care facilities, and office-based surgical practices.
The 11 required actions include things such as reading back medical orders given over the phone, marking the site where surgery is to be performed, and standardizing abbreviations or symbols that are used in the provision of care.
"The joint commission believes that taking these simple, proven steps will have major impacts in reducing the frequency of devastating medical errors that affect ...
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- Newspaper article from: Hospice Management Advisor September 1, 2004 700+ words
2005 national patient safety goals The following patient safety goals of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare...www.jcaho.org), click on 2005 National Patient Safety Goals under Headline News on the right side of the page...
