Patient Safety Training: National Patient Safety Goals and CMS Hospital Quality

Abstract Introduction Most hospitals in the U.S. are voluntarily surveyed by the Joint Commission. As part of the certification process, hospitals are evaluated for their compliance with a set of national Patient Safety Goals. These are a set of consensus-based organizational behaviors that have bee...

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Main Authors: Gene Peterson, John Bramhall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association of American Medical Colleges 2013-10-01
Series:MedEdPORTAL
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Online Access:http://www.mededportal.org/doi/10.15766/mep_2374-8265.9560