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Approved: 2010 National Patient Safety Goals.
Jt Comm Perspect. October 2009;29:1, 20-31.

This newsletter article provides an overview of the 2010 National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) and explains revisions made to the NPSGs to address concerns about the resources needed to meet the NPSG requirements and to allow organizations to focus on the most urgent issues. The revisions include clarifying or deleting some of the requirements.
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