title: Keeping patients safe--procedure and site verification and preprocedure pause.
abstract: PATIENT SAFETY GOALS are part of new policies issued by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. THESE NEW POLICIES led Inova Health System, Falls Church, Va, to develop a standardized, system-wide policy for procedure verification and a preprocedure pause. THE MULTIFACILITY COMPANY overcame a variety of obstacles to implement a system that could be used across all departments in five hospitals.
authors.affiliation: Inova Health System, Falls Church, VA, USA.
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rusynko
authors.forename: Judith
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Perry-Ewald
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010355:Patient Identification Systems; D013527:Perioperative Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D017751:Safety Management / Q000379:methods*; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000451:nursing / Q000592:standards*; D014768:Virginia