A look at The Joint Commission 
Where there’s smoke: Quick Safety article recommends safety precautions(0)
Identifies precautionary measures related to the removal of surgical smoke, including engineering controls, smoke evacuators, and high-filtration masks.
Make the call: A car crash, trauma care, standards, and inequity
Describes the College’s and The Joint Commission’s ongoing efforts to improve trauma care and provides an introduction to Dr. Coleman’s article describing her husband’s experiences at a state-verified Level II trauma center.
New Speak Up campaign focuses on how patients can play an active role in surgical safety
Note from Carlos A. Pellegrini, MD, FACS, FRCSI(Hon), FRCS(Hon), FRCSEd(Hon)* In 2015, I was appointed by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) to serve as the ACS representative on The Joint Commission. I thought that it would be important to pick a topic that The Joint Commission was working on that might be particularly relevant […]
We need to talk: Study highlights effort to overcome language barriers in surgical patient care
This article focuses on the results of the Clinician Cultural and Linguistic Assessment and the benefits for enhanced patient care by residents who are multilingual.
I COUGH provides blueprint for sustainable quality improvement
The I COUGH program, which seeks to prevent non-ventilator-associated postoperative pulmonary complications, is a model for other sustainable quality improvement initiatives.
More in this category
- Recommendations pour in as surgeons navigate COVID-19 pandemic
- Improving professionalism among physicians and surgeons
- Joint Commission resources available to detect, prevent workplace violence
- Revisiting To Err Is Human 20 years later
- New Speak Up campaign focuses on patients’ rights
- Retained foreign bodies and wrong site surgery continue to be a challenge
- JAMA Surgery “Viewpoint” misrepresents Joint Commission’s role in the opioid epidemic
- Joint Commission to start reporting on high rate of C-sections, adds new standards
- Retained foreign bodies: Can we stem the tide?
- 2018 Eisenberg Award winners include Society of Thoracic Surgeons
- Pediatric hospital uses postoperative care bundle to reduce SSIs in cardiac patients
- Joint Commission focuses on strategies to detect, prevent drug diversion
- Study aims to improve handoff process to stem incidence of workplace violence
- Joint Commission reinstates individual physician mechanical thrombectomy volume eligibility requirement
- Sentinel Event Alert focuses on developing a reporting culture by learning from close calls
