To the Editor The Editorial by Freed, “When New Standards to Improve Safety Do Not Actually Improve Safety,”¹ makes an important point: all organizations must be careful when implementing changes to improve safety and assess whether the changes were made successfully, achieved the desired improvement, and did not have unintended consequences. Unfortunately, the Editorial had several important inaccuracies about the Joint Commission’s standard on newborn identification and the study by Adelman et al.²

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联合委员会新生儿识别标准不正确。

致编辑：《当安全改进的新标准并未真正提高安全性》时，Freedom ^1发表了一个重要观点：所有组织在实施更改以提高安全性时必须谨慎，并评估更改是否成功完成，是否达到了预期目标。期望的改进，并且没有意外的结果。不幸的是，《社论》对联合委员会的新生儿识别标准和Adelman等人的研究存在一些重要的错误。²