indicated to patients and other health care organizations, the facility provides safe care of the highest quality. To earn the Joint Commission’s Goal Seal of Approval™, facilities undergo rigorous on-site surveillance, both initially and periodically, to maintain their accreditation. The following discussion focuses on the importance of patient safety, sentinel event reporting, and root cause analysis of untoward events in the hospital and office-based surgery center settings. Because a sentinel event…
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