Your troubles with the Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goal
Published on Wed Nov 17, 2010
Your troubles with the Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goal on medication reconciliation may soon be over -- or at least improved. The Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.-based accrediting body's Board of Commissioners approved changes to the goal, effective in July 2011, the Joint Commission reports. "The NPSG was revised based on input from the field about difficulties with implementation of the 2009 version of the NPSG because it was too prescriptive and detailed." The new goal reads, "Maintain and communicate accurate patient medication information" and includes five elements of performance. More information is online at
www.jointcommission.org/npsg_reconciling_medication.