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The Joint Commission has announced that it and its Center for Transforming Healthcare will participate in the Partnership for Patients, a public/private initiative designed to make hospitals safer by reducing harm and readmissions.
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Perhaps one of the most startling sentences in a recent Health Affairs article by Joint Commission president Mark Chassin, MD, FACP, MPP, MPH, is one in which he and his co-author, commission executive vice president Jerod Loeb, state that "...we know of no health care organization that has been able to achieve a consistent state of high reliability."
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If anyone knows how difficult it is to measure something as ephemeral as "good communication," it is David Maxfield.
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The Joint Commission has pledged its full support for the recently formed Partnership for Patients, a public-private effort to make hospital care safer by reducing health care associated infections and other preventable adverse events.
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In a hand hygiene improvement project by the Joint Commission's Center for Transforming Healthcare, participating hospitals used a Targeted Solutions Tool (TST). Available to all accredited organizations, the Joint Commission TST model provides the user with the data collection tool, data entry programming, self-supported observer training module and real-time reporting of compliance rates complete with charts that can be downloaded and printed for display.
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In a hand hygiene improvement project by the Joint Commission's Center for Transforming Healthcare, the following common barriers to compliance were observed across the eight participating hospitals.
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Hand hygiene was chosen as "the number one patient safety challenge" by eight leading hospitals for the first Robust Process Improvement (RPI) project by the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare.
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The Joint Commission has amended an infection control standard that called for hand hygiene compliance of more than 90%, conceding that the expectation was too high after a group of eight leading hospitals could muster only an 82% rate in a performance improvement project.
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About one in 10 sharps injuries occur during or after disposal of devices. Those exposures can be prevented with improvements in sharps containers and disposal methods, safety experts say.
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These voluntary guidelines, issued in 1989, say that an effective program should include: