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The Joint Commission has released a simplified breakdown of eight patient safety goals for US hospitals in 2024.
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The Joint Commission's eight patient safety goals for hospitals:
- Identify patients correctly — use at least two ways to identify patients, such as name and date of birth.
- Improve staff communication — Get the right test results to the right staff member on time.
- Use medicines safely — Label medicines that are not labelled prior to a procedure, take extra care with patients who take medicines that thin blood, and record and pass along correct information about patient medication.
- Use alarms safely — Make improvement to alarms on medical equipment so they are heard and responded to on time.
- Prevent infection — Use the CDC's hand cleaning guidelines and set goals to improve hand cleaning.
- Identify patient safety risks — Reduce risk of suicide.
- Improve healthcare equity — Treat improving equity as a quality and patient safety priority.
- Prevent mistakes in surgery — Ensure the correct surgery is done on the correct patient and in the correct location on the body, and pause before surgery to ensure that no mistake is being made.
The Joint Commission: 2024 Ambulatory health care national patient safety goals (20 March 2024)
https://www.jointcommission.org/-/media/tjc/documents/standards/national-patient-safety-goals/2024/all-programs-tjc-npsg-simple-2024_.pdf
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