The Joint Commission announced it has revised a requirement on surgical implant surveillance to coincide with changed requirements by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, effective immediately.
Element of performance 5 of the National Patient Safety Goal on surgical site infection prevention no longer requires providers to measure SSIs for surgical procedures involving an implant one year after the procedure. Instead, providers must measure SSIs for only the first 30 or 90 days following these procedures.
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The Joint Commission placed a moratorium on scoring noncompliance for the surveillance requirement in February due to CDC's new definition of the surveillance period. The Joint Commission requirement is now formally revised.
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