background and purpose: this study aimed to manage medical errors before and after the implementation of accreditation in public, private, and social security hospitals of mazandaran, iran. materials and methods: this descriptive study has been done in 38 hospitals. data were collected through documents reviewed relating to 2013 and 2014. the paired t-test and friedman test were used by statist...

Centers The Joint Commission recently added National Patient Safety Goal NPSG.07.06.01, which addresses the prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), as a requirement for nursing care centers. The Joint Commission also revised NPSG.07.06.01 for hospitals and critical access hospitals to bring the Goal into alignment with the 2014 update to the Compendium of Strategies t...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between accreditation scores and the disclosure of accreditation reports. DESIGN A cross sectional study. SETTING Hospitals participating in an accreditation programme in Japan. PARTICIPANTS 547 of the 817 hospitals accredited by the Japan Council for Quality Health Care (JCQHC) by January 2003. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Data on participation in public d...

The risk of patients receiving opioids without adequate monitoring and resulting in adverse outcomes has been noted by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices. More aggressive opioid analgesia often is clinically indicated, but it is not without risk. Adverse drug events due to opioids have increased with the recent adoption of pain management standards by the Joint Commission on Accreditat...

The scientific basis for claims of efficacy of nosocomial infection surveillance and control programs was established by the Study on the Efficacy of Nosocomial Infection Control project. Subsequent analyses have demonstrated nosocomial infection prevention and control programs to be not only clinically effective but also cost-effective. Although governmental and professional organizations have...

we aimed to verify the issue of the ethics audit and its use in the system of accreditation of hospitals. it presents the results of a survey conducted among hospital managers from romania.our article highlights the results of the second part of a research carried out in 2012 on the pertinence and the structure of the ethics audit integrated within the accreditation process of hospitals, accord...

The revised requirements will be displayed on The Joint Commission website at http://www.jointcommission.org/ standards_information/prepublication_standards.aspx, posted in the fall E-dition®, and published in the 2016 Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Nursing Care Centers (CAMNCC). The box that begins below displays the revised requirements; new text is underlined, and deleted language is...

Limited evidence exists on whether government owned-and-funded hospital accreditation system brings long-lasting impact in terms of continuous quality improvement to patient care. Literature shows that hospitals might adopt opportunistic behaviors solely with the aim of gaining accreditation particularly when governments link the quality improvement objective of accreditation with payment mecha...

OBJECTIVE This study presents baseline data to determine which hospital characteristics are associated with preparedness for terrorism and natural disaster in the areas of emergency response planning and availability of equipment and specialized care units. METHODS Information from the Bioterrorism and Mass Casualty Preparedness Supplements to the 2003 and 2004 National Hospital Ambulatory Me...