Talk:Patient safety organization

Section added on Criticisms of Patient Safety Organizations
A contribution was added, which needs references, (see WP:V), so I have commented it out: JCAHO defines sentinel events as events that cause signficant injury or mortality. However, many PSOs may focus on "near miss events" in an effort to avoid "a major catastrophe."

"Near miss events" are not statistically significant in root cause analyses. It is important for a statistician well versed in root cause analysis to be a participant in PSOs, but this is usally not available.

From a brief reading of the JCAHO website, (quoted below) it would seem that at least the first statement is opinion, not fact: "A sentinel event is an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury, or the risk thereof...The phrase, 'or the risk thereof' includes any process variation for which a recurrence would carry a significant chance of a serious adverse outcome." Ryanjo 01:06, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

It reappeared--that section does not make any sense, so I removed it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.104.163.25 (talk) 16:37, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Article tagged as having multiple issues since 2008
Is this still a B class article in Project Rational Skepticism and Project Medicine? Farrajak (talk) 01:15, 3 May 2013 (UTC)