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About one week before the survey teams' results are due, you schedule a meeting with your survey team leaders to teach them how to analyze results. When reviewing results, what pattern should the process follow?
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The World Health Organization's Collaborating Centre for Patient Safety, which is sponsored by The Joint Commission and The Joint Commission International, invited international healthcare providers and professionals to discuss the new set of Patient Safety Solutions, which aim to create practical global solutions to common medical errors.
The proposed Patient Safety Solutions address the following five topics:
Prevention of patient falls
Prevention of pressure ulcers
Response to a deteriorating patient
Communication of critical test results
Prevention of bloodstream infections associated with central lines
The WHO Collaborating Centre for Patient Safety's Internet-based survey on the topics will help create the proposed solutions. To visit the survey, click here.
To read The Joint Commission International's press release on Patient Safety Solutions, click here.
UK's chief medical officer urges fines for medical errors, infections
Sir Liam Donaldson, UK's chief medical officer, recently proposed that hospitals be fined when patients acquire healthcare-associated infections or are harmed by medical errors, reports The Times (London).
Taxpayers should not pay for hospital-associated infections such as methicillin-resistant Staphyloccoccus aureus, Donaldson said. The proposal will be brought before the Health Minister in an ongoing review of the National Health Service.
Donaldson said set tariffs for medical mistakes or healthcare-associated infections were a strong "lever for change," according to The Times. Under the proposal, hospitals will have a portion of their budget withheld to cover the cost of any patient harmed by the hospital.
