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Do you shudder to think of the workload involved in completing
the periodic performance review (PPR) now required by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations? Are you finding yourself solely responsible for all the data collection this entails? Is your goal to do the minimum required to pass muster with surveyors?
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To share or not to share? Thats the question for many organizations currently in the thick of the decision-making process for whether to send in the results of their periodic performance review (PPR) to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).
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Throughout a recent Joint Commission survey at Paradise Valley Hospital in National City, CA, surveyors zeroed in on two key areas: staff knowledge and patient care, reports Catherine M. Fay, RN, director of performance improvement.
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Health care practitioners now have had a couple years of experience in doing failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) projects. Now that weve got some know-how in how to do a FMEA, it is clear that these projects arent easy.
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Light PD, Thomas CJ. Vitamin C supplementation for coronary heart disease protection in women. Altern Ther Women's Health 2004;6(1):1-5.
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JCAHO modifies patient safety goals; MedPAC: No payment update for home health.
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Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) remains a difficult problem in critically ill patients, both in diagnosis and treatment.
