Automating Patient Safety: Complying with the Joint Commission Universal Protocol; July/August 2009

 

Established in 2004, the Universal Protocol was updated in 2008, in large part to address the fact that incidents of wrong site surgery had not decreased during the intervening years. The July/August issue of Healthcare Magazine features an article by Gabriel Spitz, LiveData's Director of Human Factors, which assesses modifications to the Universal Protocol and recent technological advances for ensuring full compliance. Read article…