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The International Patient Safety Goals (IPSG) were developed in 2006 by the Joint Commission International (JCI). The goals were adapted from the JCAHO's National Patient Safety Goals. [1] Compliance with IPSG has been monitored in JCI-accredited hospitals since January 2006. [1]
The National Patient Safety Goals is a quality and patient safety improvement program established by the Joint Commission in 2003. The NPSGs were established to help accredited organizations address specific areas of concern in regards to patient safety.
Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitors to the hospital.
However, scientific patient safety research by Annegret Hannawa, and others, has shown that ineffective communication can lead to patient harm. [29] [30] [31] Communication regarding patient safety can be classified into two categories: the prevention of adverse events and the response to adverse events. Effective communication can help in the ...
A patient safety organization (PSO) is a group, institution, or association that improves medical care by reducing medical errors.Common functions of patient safety organizations are data collection, analysis, reporting, education, funding, and advocacy.
The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority is an independent state agency located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Its mission is to improve the quality of healthcare in Pennsylvania by collecting and analyzing patient safety information, developing solutions to patient safety issues, and sharing this information through education and ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) published the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist in 2008 in order to increase the safety of patients undergoing surgery. [1] The checklist serves to remind the surgical team of important items to be performed before and after the surgical procedure in order to reduce adverse events such as surgical site infections or retained instruments. [1]
Objects left in a patient after surgery; Rape at a healthcare facility; Suicide at a healthcare facility, or within 72 hours of departure; Receiving a blood transfusion of the wrong blood type [2] Radiation therapy to the wrong part of the body; Radiation therapy 25% or more above the planned dose