February 10, 2016
Joint Commission: Surgical errors top 2015 sentinel events
Editor's Note
The Joint Commission on February 9 posted sentinel event-related data reported from accredited organizations.
The top five types of sentinel events reported in 2015 were:
- Unintended retention of a foreign body (116 events)
- Wrong-patient, wrong-site, wrong-procedure (111 events)
- Falls (95 events)
- Suicide (95 events)
- Op/postop complication (76 events).
Reporting of sentinel events to the Joint Commission is voluntary and represents only a small proportion of actual events.
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