JCAH

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JCAH

Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals.

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Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

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Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAH) for failing to discover

Standards for performance measurement and improvement of DSC certification programs focus on four key areas: (1) creating an organized, comprehensive approach to performance improvement; (2) using comparative data to evaluate program processes and patient outcomes; (3) evaluating participants' perception of care quality; and (4) maintaining data quality and integrity (JCAH, 2007).

RN dysphagia screening, a stepwise approach

However, by this point, the numbers were already in decline due to the rise of organizations like the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) and the JCAH organizations, which recaptured the gold standard status from Federal qualification and are discussed later in more detail.

Overview, History, and Objectives of Performance Measurement

The MEDSCHOOL and JCAHACCRD affiliation dummy variables also show strong negative effects indicating that medical school affiliation and JCAH accreditation result in smaller hospital reserve margins.

Hospital reserve margins: structural determinants and policy implications using cross-section data

As an example, the Medical Library Association (MLA) developed the "JCAH Guide to Professional Library Services for Surveyors" (1980).

Library services and health care administration

Psychology and JCAH: Reflections on a decade of struggle.

Ethical issues involved in the role of psychologists in medical settings

(Both deemed necessary to be congruent with JCAH objectives-both delay care).

Conflicts of interest and quality care

These concepts matured to create the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAH) in 1951.

Medical staff in need of change: Explore a revolutionary way to reorganize your medical staff. (Hospitals)

This emphasis in the JCAH manual prompted our 650-bed hospital to form an ancillary services quality assurance committee.

Keeping on top of quality assurance

Today, the JCAH is focusing accreditation as well as its quality assurance approach on outcome alone.

Is quality control quality assurance?

Forced upon an unprepared profession in a cultural climate that applauded the discomfiture of all established institutions, medical audit failed to get the professional support it needed, failed in its objectives, and was discarded in 1980 by the PSROs and the JCAH. In addition to its cultural inadequacies, there were structural flaws [5].

From QA to TQM

JCAH has speeded this up by requiring that hospitals periodically assess the competence of individuals who provide patient care services.