A look at The Joint Commission

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• 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
• Study on value of accreditation falls flat on methodology, patient focus
• Joint Commission case example addresses wrong site surgery
• Collaboration to improve quality of total hip and total knee replacement programs
• Examining rapid response system treatments in the elderly patient population
• Surgeons well-positioned to champion high reliability
• Joint Commission changes how it assesses safety culture
• Joint Commission issues alert on violence prevention in the health care workplace
• Advancing health equity in hospitals