Patient Safety Goals

International Patient Safety Goals

  • Goal 1: Identify patients correctly.
  • Goal 2: Improve effective communication.
  • Goal 3: Improve the safety of high-alert medications.
  • Goal 4: Ensure correct-site, correct-procedure, correct-patient surgery.
  • Goal 5: Reduce the risk of health care-associated infections.
  • Goal 6: Reduce the risk of patient harm resulting from falls.