Patient safety goals

The goal Improve communication effectiveness among caregivers calls for actions such as the following  

The goal Reduce the risk of health care-related infections is concerned with complying with the ongoing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 

Finally, the goal Minimize the risk of patient harm resulting from falls is basically concerned with the implementation of a fall reduction program that includes an assessment of the program effectiveness. 

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The Joint Commission Website http //www.jointcommission.org. National Patient Safety Goals document. 

The JCAHO annually publishes six national patient safety goals and surveys the accredited organizations related to them. The initial six goals include several medication-related safety improvements ... 

Joint commission announces national patient safety goals, July 24,2002. Available at www.jcaho.org, accessed August 5, 2002. 

Sentinel event reporting and patient safety goals.385... 

Improved compliance with Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals 50%... 

National Patient Safety Goals, The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), 1 Renaissance Blvd., Oakbrook, Terrace, Illinois, 2007. Also available online at http //www.jointcommission.org/ patientsafety/Nationalpatientsafety goals/07 npsg facts.htm. 

Saufl, N. M., 2007 National Patient Safety Goals, Journal ofPeriAnesthesia Nursing, Vol. 22, No. 2,2007,pp. 125-127. 

Chapter 3 presents introductory aspects of safety and human factors. Chapter 4 is devoted to methods considered useful to perform patient safety analysis. These methods include failure modes and effect analysis (FMEA), fault tree analysis (FTA), root cause analysis (RCA), hazard and operability analysis (HAZOP), six sigma methodology, preliminary hazard analysis (PFfA), interface safety analysis (ISA), and job safety analysis (JSA). Patient safety basics are presented in Chapter 5. This chapter covers such topics as patient safety goals, causes of patient injuries, patient safety culture, factors contributing to pahent safety culture, safe practices for better health care, and patient safety indicators and their selection. 

JCAHO has been instrumental in getting safety on the radar screens of all the facilities it surveys. Using information collected about serious medical errors and sentinel events, as well as consensus panels of safety experts, JCAHO has cod-ifled six patient safety goals into standards that became effective in January 2003. The goals, expressed as specific tactics in aJCAHO press release of July 24, 2002, are as follows ... 

The 2006 Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goal 2E requires aU healthcare providers to implement a standardized approach to handoff communications including an opportunity to ask and respond to question. The Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goal also contains specific guidelines for the handoff process ... 

Low resilience may result in strained interpersonal relationships and difficulty enlisting others In patient safety goals and objectives. 

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