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Keeping patients safe--procedure and site verification and preprocedure pause

Lookup NU author(s): Emeritus Professor Elaine Perry

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Abstract

PATIENT SAFETY GOALS are part of new policies issued by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. THESE NEW POLICIES led Inova Health System, Falls Church, Va, to develop a standardized, system-wide policy for procedure verification and a preprocedure pause. THE MULTIFACILITY COMPANY overcame a variety of obstacles to implement a system that could be used across all departments in five hospitals.

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Author(s): Rusynko B, Perry-Ewald J

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: AORN Journal

Year: 2004

Volume: 79

Issue: 4

Pages: 787-793, 796

ISSN (print): 0001-2092

ISSN (electronic): 1878-0369

Publisher: Elsevier Inc.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0001-2092(06)60819-3

DOI: 10.1016/S0001-2092(06)60819-3

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