This issue contains articles about human factors engineering, suicide risk assessment, rapid response teams and analyzing where missed opportunities occur, a column about design thinking in patient sa...

Over the past five years, rapid response teams (RRT) have been brought to the forefront of American hospitals. In 2004, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) launched its 100,000 Lives Campai...

The Periodic Performance Review (PPR) is an annual self-assessment process aimed at supporting continuous accreditation readiness and performance improvement activities required by The Joint Commissio...

Identifying patients at risk for suicide has been a requirement of the National Patient Safety Goals since 2007. Since that time, inpatient suicide remains the second most frequently reported sentinel...

Ectopic pregnancy will be used throughout this article to illustrate some of the 2010 standards, highlighting The Joint Commission’s addition of hazardous medications to several standards in 200...

Every month, Briefings on The Joint Commission brings you the latest news in Joint Commission survey preparation, standards interpretation, and best practices, as well as CMS and other hospital accred...

When Barbara Wilson, PhD, RNC, begins any new patient safety project, she first examines the principles of human factors engineering (HFE). Wilson, assistant professor at Arizona State University&rsqu...

Innovation and design thinking is a fascinating methodology that holds much promise for healthcare. Although other industries, such as manufacturing and telecommunications, have harnessed the power th...

The AHAP Blog is running a contest for a drawing to win a free seat to its annual conference in Las Vegas to be held on May 6-7, 2010. The contest will pick a monthly AHAP member as the winner in Marc...

True or false: There are many processes that can be measured and often more improvement opportunities than an organization can handle at the same time. As a result, it is important that the organizati...