Take the fear out of sentinel events.
Follow the proper procedure for identifying and reporting sentinel events to the Joint Commission to decrease their incidence.
Radtke
Kelly
K
Office of Quality Monitoring, JCAHO, Oakbrook Terrace, Ill, USA.
Milton
Celeste
C
D006801:Humans; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012308:Risk Management / Q000379:methods*; D018571:Sentinel Surveillance; D014481:United States