Quality in perinatal care: applying performance measurement using joint commission on accreditation of healthcare organizations indicators in Italy

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...

Hospital Quality Oversight by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

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

ED physician staffing guidelines erroneously attributed to Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)

Hospital Performance Trends on National Quality Measures and the Association With Joint Commission Accreditation

BACKGROUND Evaluations of the impact of hospital accreditation have been previously hampered by the lack of nationally standardized data. One way to assess this impact is to compare accreditation status with other evidence-based measures of quality, such as the process measures now publicly reported by The Joint Commission and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). OBJECTIVES T...