2008 National Patient Safety Goals

Click on the links below to access the goals and implementation expectations by program.

• Ambulatory Care
• Assisted Living
• Behavioral Health Care
• Critical Access Hospital
• Disease-Specific Care
• Home Care
• Hospital
• Laboratory
• Long Term Care
• Networks
• Office-Based Surgery

Additional 2008 Resources

• Facts about the 2008 National Patient Safety Goals
• Request for Review of an Alternative Approach to a National Patient Safety Goal Requirement -
  Updated 1/28/08
• 2008 NPSG PowerPoint Presentation** 
• September 13 telephone conference call replay with Dr. Peter Angood, vice president and chief patient safety officer at The Joint Commission.
• Easy-to-read versions of the NPSG for the public
  

For more information, contact the Standards Interpretation Group at (630) 792-5900 or via the
online question form.         

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Additional Resources

•  Look-alike/sound-alike drug list  *
• Official "Do Not Use" Abbreviations List *
• Implementation Tips for Eliminating Dangerous Abbreviations
• Introduction to the NPSGs
• Compliance Data

Past Goals

• 2007 National Patient Safety Goals
• 2006 National Patient Safety Goals
• 2005 National Patient Safety Goals
• 2004 National Patient Safety Goals
• 2003 National Patient Safety Goals

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Frequently Asked Questions about the 2007 NPSGs

• Questions about the applicability of the NPSGs and associated requirements
• Goal 1 (Patient identification)
• Goal 2 (Communication)
• Goal 3 (Medication safety)
• Goal 7 (Health care associated infection)
• Goal 8 (Reconcile medications)
  • Flow Chart
• Goal 9 (Reduce falls)
• Goal 10 (Reduce influenza and pneumococcal disease)
• Goal 11 (Reduce surgical fires)
• Goal 13 (Patient involvement)
• Goal 14 (Pressure ulcer prevention)
• Goal 15 (Assessment of high-risk patient populations)

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