- Patient Rights and Ethics
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Preventing Patient Harm
- Effective Leadership to Prevent Errors
- Staff Work Together to Prevent Errors
- Staff Identify and Mitigate Risks Associated with Errors
- Handwashing
- Tracking and reporting infections
- Nursing Workforce
- Rate of Patients Who Experience a Burn Prior to Discharge from the ASC Rate of Patients Who Experience a Fall Within the ASC Rate of Patients Who Experience a Wrong Site, Side, Patient, Procedure, or Implant "Rate of ASC Patients Who Are Transferred or Ad
- Rate of Patients Who Experience a Fall Within the ASC
- Rate of Patients Who Experience a Wrong Site, Side, Patient, Procedure, or Implant
- Medication Safety
- Care for Elective Outpatient Surgery Patients
- Elective Outpatient Surgery for Adults and Children
- Complex Adult Surgery
Preventing Patient Harm
To provide safe, high-quality care, surgery centers must implement policies and protocols to track and reduce harm to patients from medical errors. Patient safety improves when surgery centers leaders make a deliberate commitment to these practices.