The Joint Commission’s latest roundup of sentinel event statistics found that unintended retention of foreign objects, patient falls, and suicide topped the list of most-reported events in 2014.
Every year, CMS releases an annual financial report. Within that report, the agency provides a review of Medicare's oversight of accrediting organizations. It has become a Briefings on The Joint Commissiontradition to take a look at what CMS finds, as well as how The Joint...
Two studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) indicate that improvements in surgical care are not dependent on tracking surgical complications.
