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Posts by The Joint Commission:

• TST: The right operation, on the right patient, in the right location
• Monitoring OR fires to improve patient safety
• Managing medication in ambulatory surgery centers
• Hospitals continue to improve on surgical care accountability measures
• Surgeons should play leading role in Safety Leadership Rounds
• Updated compendium offers strategies to prevent health care-associated infections
• The Joint Commission reports increase in robotic surgery-related sentinel events
• JCI can be a resource for patients receiving care abroad
• New draft guideline to prevent SSI
• Renewed awareness of infection control during surgery
• National Time Out Day focuses on every patient, every time
• Physicians invited to play a larger role in standards process