The Joint Commission launched the National Patient Safety Goals in 2003 and most recently updated the goals again for 2020. Many years have now passed since the inception of these goals. How has the overall focus of the goals changed in the intervening years? What conditions in the health care marketplace have driven the need for change?
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Solution
There has been noticeable change with the revisions of the National Patient Safety Goals over the years. In the beginning, the Joint Commission set very broad goals is areas such as communication and infection control. They were starting up from a clean slate and needed to set standards for the basics of health care. Now that healthcare has evolved, so have the goals. The goals not target specific areas that are data-driven which include some important ones of health equity and suicide prevention. They are committed to addressing the most pressing patient safety issues. This change resulted from feedback from the healthcare stakeholders and from data analysis. There presented a need to target specific goals that were not being met in the current NPSG.
Yevgeniy Peregudov
The Joint Commission. (2003). National Patient Safety Goals: 2003. https://www.jointcommission.org/
The Joint Commission. (2020). National Patient Safety Goals Effective January 2020. https://www.jointcommission.org/
