| Subject: | 2006 National Patient Safety Goals New Requirement Hand-off Communication |
| Category: | The Joint Commission (TJC)
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| Published: | Thu, 28 Jul 2005 - 10:00 am |
| The New Requirement for Patient Safety Goal 2E requires healthcare organizations to put into practice a standardized approach to "hand-off" communication that includes the opportunity to ask questions and respond to those questions and also to read-back or repeat-back patient information as needed.
Hand-off" communication should provide:
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