Mix-up leads to a medication error.
Recently, the Joint Commission's Board of Commissioners approved new and revised standards directly focused on patient safety and medical/health care error reduction in hospitals. The standards, to be implemented July 1, 2001, augment the nearly 50 percent of current Joint Commission standards directly related to patient safety. This issue of Sentinel Event Alert includes information accredited hospitals may use in conducting a proactive risk assessment, a requirement of the new patient safety standards.
D006801:Humans; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000401:mortality / Q000517:prevention & control*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D018571:Sentinel Surveillance; D014481:United States