This monthly newsletter gives readers “how to” information on analyzing and preventing errors. While this newsletter emphasizes prevention (a proactive approach), it also addresses the real-world issues of reacting to adverse events. In addition,
Patient Safety - teaches health care organizations how to analyze and prevent errors;
- provides the tools and information necessary to help organizations create and implement a culture of safety;
- links standards compliance and the survey process to establishing proactive risk reduction and error prevention activities;
- explains how organizations can use the root cause analysis process and failure mode and effects analysis to improve their processes and prevent errors; and
- presents case studies, examples, forms, and tools for organizations to adapt for their own risk reduction and error prevention activities.
New features address the medication process, FMEA, and discipline-specific information about patient safety. Perspectives on Patient Safety is also available online! Receive each issue right on your computer with a few clicks of your mouse. By signing up for online access, you get
Speed
- get information fast—you'll have access to the online issue before it mails to your organization;
- receive each issue directly—no more waiting for each issue to make its way through your organization to your desk.
Access
- additional information at your fingertips—click on a hyperlink and go directly to related information anywhere on the worldwide web;
- never misplace an issue—you can access current and archive issues online, without taking up space on your desk.
Searchability - online search engine—find articles on a specific topic or for a specific setting;
- additional help—one click will open up a world of related resources to help you with a particular topic.
Joint Commission Perspectives on Patient Safety™ Senior Editor: Jim Parker
Project Manager: Bridget Chambers
Manager, Publications: Paul Reis
Executive Director, Publications: Catherine Chopp Hinckley, Ph.D.
Vice President, Learning: Charles Macfarlane, F.A.C.H.E.
Subscription Information
Joint Commission Perspectives on Patient Safety™ (ISSN 1534-5181) is published monthly (12 issues per year) by Joint Commission Resources, One Renaissance Boulevard, Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181. Send address corrections to Joint Commission Perspectives on Patient Safety, Superior Fulfillment, 131 West First Street, Duluth, MN 55802-2065. Annual individual subscription rates for 2006: United States $299 for both print and online, $249 for online only; Mexico/Canada $350 for both print and online, $249 for online only; all other countries $389 for both print and online, $249 for online only. The subscription rate for an online site license is $995. Back issues are $25 each (postage paid). Direct all inquiries to Superior Fulfillment, 800/746-6578.
© 2008 by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission.
Joint Commission Resources, Inc (JCR), a not-for-profit subsidiary of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, has been designated by the Joint Commission to publish publications and multimedia products. JCR reproduces and distributes these materials under license from the Joint Commission.
Editorial Policy
Reference to a name, an organization, a product, or a service in Joint Commission Perspectives on Patient Safety™ should not be construed as an endorsement by Joint Commission Resources, nor is failure to include a name, an organization, a product, or a service to be construed as disapproval.