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.

Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, and Washington, DC, Jan. 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum (NQF) today announced they are aligning Joint Commission’s Sentinel ...

The Joint Commission has issued a new Sentinel Event Alert (pdf) urging organizations to pay greater attention to preventing healthcare worker fatigue. The Joint Commission reported in 2007 that ...

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 ...