The number of sentinel events reviewed by The Joint Commission (TJC) in the first half of this pandemic-dominated year are well under the pace for...Read More »
Healthcare compliance changed quite a bit in the last decade. For one thing, fire safety moved into the current millennium with the adoption of...Read More »
While suicide overall often has been in the top sentinel events, this breakdown includes two categories that split suicide events into those...Read More »
At the end of March, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced its third global safety initiative, the Global Patient Safety Challenge on...Read More »
The Joint Commission in March unveiled Sentinel Event Alert (SEA) 57, which stresses the role of leadership in developing and sustaining a culture...Read More »
There were 1,089 patient suicides logged into the Joint Commission’s Sentinel Event Database between 2010 and 2014; overall, suicides were the...Read More »