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QUALITY
&
ACCREDITATION
4 Things to Know About
The Joint Commission's
4 New TJR Performance
Measures
By Eric Oliver
e Joint Commission recently released four new performance measures
for total hip and total knee replacement procedures.
Here's what you should know:
1. e measures correlate to the following areas:
• Regional anesthesia
• Postoperative ambulation on the day of surgery
• Discharged to home
• Preoperative functional/health status assessment
2. Organizations need to collect data related to the measures beginning
Jan. 1, 2018. e data must be reported quarterly.
3. e measures aim to address what CMS described as "significant vari-
ance in the quality and cost of care for these surgeries."
4. e Joint Commission worked with an advisory panel to develop the
measures. e measures were publicly vetted and rigorously tested before
being implemented. n
The Joint Commission's 10
Most-Reported Sentinel
Events in Q2 2017
By Eric Oliver
T
he Joint Com-
mission re-
leased sentinel
events for the first half
of 2017.
These are the 10 most-
reported sentinel events
for the first half of 2017:
1. Fall — 49 reported
2. Suicide — 43 reported
3. Unintended retention
of foreign body — 41
events
4. Wrong-patient,
wrong-site, wrong-pro-
cedure — 35 events
5. Other unanticipated
event — 34 events
6. Delay in treatment —
32 events
7. Medication error —
19 events
8. Criminal event —
16 events
9. Operation/ostoperative
complication — 12 events
10. Perinatal death/injury
— 10 events
ere have been 400 senti-
nel events in 2017 so far. n
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