title: Get to the root of sentinel events involving infection control.
abstract: Learn when it's necessary to perform a root cause analysis on a sentinel event, and why.
authors.affiliation: Office of Quality Monitoring, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organuizations, Oakbrook Terrace, IL, USA.
authors.forename: Kelly
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Radtke
mesh_terms: D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D018571:Sentinel Surveillance; D014481:United States