Hospitals’ 10 Worst Case Events
May 28, 2019 | Terry Sharrer
Here are the Joint Commission’s voluntarily submitted sentinel events in healthcare for 2018: Falls — 111 reported; Unintended retention of a foreign body — 111; Wrong-site surgery — 94; Unassigned — 68; Unanticipated events such as asphyxiation, burn, choking on food, drowning or being found unresponsive — 59; Suicide — 50; Delay in treatment — 43; Product or device event —29; Criminal event — 28; and Medication error — 24. Any one of these events can cost a hospital hundreds of thousands of dollars. Each category, therefore, is a target for innovative remediation. MORE
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