National Patient Safety Goals

How do the National Patient Safety Goals Improve Clinical Outcomes?

Introduction

Formerly known as JCAHO, TJC- the Joint Commission, is a private healthcare accreditation body. Improvement of the hospitals and health care organizations' safety and quality of patient care is the declared mission of TJC. Hospitals are surveyed by the Joint Commission on an unannounced basis. Evaluation of compliance of hospital with nationwide recognized Joint Commission standards is the objective of this survey. Quality and safety of care issues within the organization and the environment's safety in which care is provided are dealt with the Joint Commission standards. All hospital surveys, in the USA since January 1, 2006 have been unannounced, as the programmed assessments of the past used to permit institutions to put in order for them and there was no assurance that between surveys, ample standards were being sustained. However, when it has to do with the international dimension, surveys carried out by Joint Commission International still happen at a time discerned beforehand by the being surveyed hospitals, and often after substantial grounding by those hospitals.

Accreditation standards and goals of patient safety are updated by the Joint Commission annually, and then for all interested persons to review, formulating transparency in the information and process to all stakeholders varying from institutions, to practitioners, to patient advocates and to patients, these standards and goals are posted by TJC on its website. Promotion of specific improvements in patient safety is the purpose of National Patient Safety Goals of the Joint Commission. Problematic areas in health care are highlighted by National Patient Safety Goals, and evidence and expert-based solutions are also provide by these goals to the problems. Wherever possible, the National Patient Safety Goals revolve about system-wide solutions.Thesis Statement

National Patient Safety Goals are meant to ameliorate clinical outcomes. Improvement in safety of patients is core of these goals. These goals do not only highlight the problematic areas associated with healthcare but also come up with solution of these problems.

Background Information Related to National Patient Safety Goals

“To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System” was brought about by Institute of Medicine in 1999 which has augmented awareness and consideration to issues of patient safety. Main areas of concern embrace errors in medication, falls, wrong-site surgery, readmissions, healthcare-acquired infections, and errors in diagnosis. Introduced in 2002, National Patient Safety Goals were formulated to facilitate accredited organizations in dealing with particular issues of patient safety.

The rationale of the National Patient Safety Goals is improvement of patient safety. The problems in health care safety are focused by these goals with particular emphasis on their solution.

Identification of Patient

One of the basic goals is identification of patient correctly that is usage of two ways as a minimum for identification of patients, for instance, making use of the name of patient and date of birth. This is made to ensure that correct medicine and treatment is got by each patient. And while a blood transfusion, correct blood is got by the appropriate ...