[Report] Improving America’s Hospitals – The Joint Commission’s Annual Report on Quality & Safety 2012

It has been five years since The Joint Commission began publishing this annual report on quality and safety, and I’m astounded at the improvement reflected in the data contained within these pages. The first annual report, published in 2007, included data from 2002-2005 and covered 15 measures of performance. This year’s report covers 45 measures and reflects from one [...]