Sentinel Event Issues: How to Prevent Harm.

Joint Commission Resources Quality & Safety Network and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. February 25, 2016; 2:00–3:00 PM (Eastern).

The Joint Commission sentinel event alerts seek to raise awareness of serious safety incidentsand provide policy guidance to reduce their occurrence. This webinar will discuss how to employ Sentinel Event Policy, apply root cause analysis to understand why such incidents occur, and review other reporting methods.