Joint Commission International accreditation: relationship to four models of evaluation

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations was founded in 1951 as a private, not-for-profit organization that evaluates and accredits hospitals and other healthcare organizations. In 1987, the JCAHO launched its Agenda for Change to create a more modern and sophisticated accreditation process to place primary emphasis on actual performance. Coincident with this new emphas...

An Audit of Emergency Department Accreditation Based on Joint Commission International Standards (JCI)

INTRODUCTION Despite thousands of years from creation of medical knowledge, it not much passes from founding the health care systems. Accreditation is an effective mechanism for performance evaluation, quality enhancement, and the safety of health care systems. This study was conducted to assess the results of emergency department (ED) accreditation in Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital, Tehran, Iran, ...

Medicare and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations: a healthy relationship?

A Proposed Adaptation of Joint Commission International Accreditation Standards for Hospital- JCI to the Health Care Excellence Model

The Ministry of Health and Medical Education in Iran designed a comprehensive system as health care excellence model with participation of National Institute of Productivity & Organizational Excellence since January 2011 and introduced it in June 2012. The purpose of this paper is adapting of Joint Commission International Accreditation System in hospital by organizational excellence model in h...

Relationship between Health Care Organization Management Standards of the Joint Commission International and Health Tourism in Selected Hospitals in Tehran

Introduction: Health tourism is an organized travel we make from where we live to another place to keep, regain, and improve physical and mental health. It can be also a national strategy to improve national income and some believe that it can be an integral part of national security. The present study is an attempt to determine the relationship between obser...