The Council for the Accreditation of Education Programs (CAEP)—the professional accreditation organization for teacher education programs in the U.S.—has charged a high level Commission with the development of new standards for accreditation to govern the programs that it accredits. CAEP is the product of an amalgamation of two earlier accrediting organizations—the National Council for the Accr...

Workplace violence is becoming an issue that all organizations must be aware of. In healthcare organizations, these behaviors, especially that of bullying, are detrimental and affect staff, patients, and outcomes. Healthcare organizations that do not address this issue and instill measures to prevent it will soon see the effects that bullying and other forms of workplace violence can create: th...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of utilizing the patient journey survey (PJS) method in healthcare accreditation processes. DESIGN Randomized trial of the PJS method in parallel with the current accreditation survey (CAS) method of the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS). SETTING Acute healthcare organizations in Australia. PARTICIPANTS Seventeen organizations, 28 or...

1. DeRosier J, Stalhandske E, Bagian JP, Nudell T. Using health care failure mode and effect analysis: the VA National Center for Patient Safety’s prospective risk analysis system. Jt Comm J Qual Improv. 2002;28:248—67, 209. 2. Institute of Medicine Patient safety. Achieving a new standard for care. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 2004. 3. Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare...

The Joint Commission has revised its processes for rendering Accreditation with Follow-up Survey (AFS) and Preliminary Denial of Accreditation (PDA) decisions. These changes are intended to streamline the post-survey process and expedite the resolution of Requirements for Improvement (RFIs). Effective immediately, the following changes are applicable to any organization that is seeking to renew...

BACKGROUND The quality of discharge documentation in patients discharged to rehabilitation centers and other subacute facilities is less well studied than that of patients discharged home. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the quality of information transfer among patients discharged from acute hospitals to subacute facilities across an integrated healthcare delivery system. DESIGN Retrospective evalua...

STUDIES OVER THE PAST 4 DECADES have shown that physicians die by suicide more frequently than nonphysicians. Because of this striking finding, experts with knowledge and experience in areas including medicine, health insurance, and physician licensing recently convened to address factors in the profession that can discourage physicians experiencing depression and other psychiatric conditions f...

1 Institute for Technical Cooperation in Health, Potomac, Maryland, United States of America. Send correspondence to: Humberto M. Novaes, INTECH, Inc., 12 Pasture Brook Court, Potomac, Maryland 20854-2954, United States of America; telephone: (301) 610-9620; fax: (301) 610-9621; e-mail: [email protected] 2 Case Western Reserve University, Medical School, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America...