Outline of JCI standard (JCI-S-001-003)

Sedation under JCI standard

The practice of anesthesia and sedation continues to expand beyond the operating room and now includes the gastroenterology suite, magnetic resonance imaging suites, and the cardiac catheterization laboratory. Non-anesthesiologists frequently administer sedation, in part because of a lack of available anesthesiologists and economic aspect, which emphasizes the safety of sedation. The Joint Comm...

A new JCI conflict-of-interest policy.

As stewards of the JCI, we are responsible for instituting and sustaining the highest possible standards for integrity. To this end, we have established a very specific set of guidelines for handling potential conflicts of interest - not only for authors and referees, but also for ourselves.

Berson, Yalow, and the JCI: the agony and the ecstasy.

The isolation of insulin in 1921 by Banting, Best, Collip, and Macleod stands as one of the most dramatic stories in modern medical investigation. Only two years passed between the initial experiments in dogs to widespread human application to the awarding of the Nobel Prize in 1923. Insulin-related research has also served as a focus, at least in part, for the work of three other Nobel Prize r...

Author ' s response to reviews Title : An outpatient antibiotic stewardship intervention during the journey to JCI accreditation

JCI - C/EBPε mediates nicotinamide-enhanced clearance of Staphylococcus aureus in mice

Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and The Research Division of Immunology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, and Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA. Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA. Division of Hematology and Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, UCLA School of Medici...