As the world learned recently through TV's "Top Chef" and the Republican National Convention, Milwaukee has a vibrant and dynamic dining scene. Of course, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel subscribers who ...

The Joint Commission has published data on sentinel events across different kinds of healthcare venues. The data was collected over a fifteen-year period from 1995-2010. Results from the data ...

A summary of sentinel events reviewed by The Joint Commission reveals that more than 1,200 such events occurred last year. That number indicates a growing incidence of reviewed events since 1995.

In 2014, human factors were the most frequently identified root cause of sentinel events, according to "Sentinel Event Data Root Causes by Event Type 2004-2014," released by The Joint Commission.

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In 2015, the Joint Commission reviewed 936 sentinel events that occurred in hospitals, ambulatory care settings and other care locations, up dramatically from the 764 events it reviewed in 2014. In ...

NASHUA — State officials soon will bring together a team of medical and legal experts to probe whether human errors in treatment or cracks in the system led a 63-year-old Nashua woman to leap to her ...

Nearly half of patients undergoing drug-induced sleep endoscopy (DISE) experienced a sentinel central event after an average of 6 minutes in a study of 103 individuals with obstructive sleep apnea ...

The Fayetteville City Council is pausing on implementing a process, called a sentinel review, that would look into the 2022 shooting death of a Fayetteville woman at her home by police officers.