ASHRM Releases First in Four-Part Series on Eliminating Serious Safety Events

October 19, 2012 | Strategic Insights for Ambulatory Care

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Healthcare organizations must adopt a common definition for serious safety events if they are to achieve their goal of eliminating such events from their organizations, says a newly released white paper, “Serious Safety Events: Getting to Zero™,” from the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM). Released at ASHRM’s annual conference in Washington, DC, October 7 to 10, 2012, the white paper defines a serious safety event as “a deviation from generally accepted practice or process that reaches the patient and causes severe harm or death.”

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