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New Report Highlights Patient Safety Awareness Week

Utah, 11. Mar 10 09:30 PST
News byUtah-Gov

The Utah Department of Health (UDOH), in conjunction with the Utah Hospitals & Health Systems Association (UHA) and HealthInsight, today released the 2009 Sentinel Event Data report for the state of Utah. Sentinel events are defined as unanticipated deaths, wrong-site surgeries, patient abductions, and loss of function that occur at a hospital or ambulatory surgical center and are directly related to any clinical service.