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Two formerly proposed National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) may return in 2007, JCAHO Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives Richard Croteau, MD, said during the Hospital Executive Briefings conference in Rosemont, IL, on September 1. Using technology such as bar coding to identify patients and improving the safety of anticoagulants, insulin, and narcotics are two topics the JCAHO’s Sentinel Event Advisory group considered during a mid-September meeting, said Croteau.