"Sentinel event alerts" are published by The Joint Commission to do which of the following?
a. Learn from sentinel events that have occurred in other facilities and incorporate their recommendations for prevention into your own facility's policies.
b. Notify hospitals that if a sentinel event occurs during an "alert," the hospital will be subject to withdrawal of Medicare and Medicaid certification and reimburse-ment.
c. Prevent a near-miss from occurring.
d. Assist hospitals to find national standardized performance measures to benchmark themselves against other similar hospitals.
A
Sentinel event alerts are published by The Joint Commission to "review the lessons learned" from those facilities that had experienced these sentinel events. The hope is that other hospitals will incorporate the recommendations into their policy to avoid making similar errors. All other responses are incorrect.
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