Joint Commission NQF align safety event reporting to reduce redundancy and ease administrative burden for healthcare providers by 2027.

Aligning the lists will streamline safety event reporting and ultimately reduce reporting burden for clinicians, hospitals, and health systems.

A hospital’s patient safety initiatives are only as effective as the tools used to track and analyze incidents. Despite significant progress over the past two decades following the 2005 Patient Safety ...

After Washington, D.C.-based Children’s National Health System was challenged to increase its voluntary safety event reports submitted over a three-year period, a quality initiative at the pediatric ...

Harm and the potential for harm from medical care is pervasive and well-documented. Much of the safety literature has historically focused on physical harm, but the Agency for Healthcare Research and ...

‘Focus on HARM’ initiative to refresh ‘Never Events’ to reflect the full range of today’s care delivery settings and develop consensus on reporting standards The lack of reliable, consistent, ...

Journal of Patient Safety, Vol. 15, No. 4 (December 2019), pp. e48-e51 (4 pages) Objectives: The safety culture in the workplace may affect event reporting. We evaluated the relationship of safety ...