Surgeries that do not involve the insertion of an implantable device should be monitored for surgical site infection for the first ____________ following the procedure. Surgeries that involve an implantable device should be monitored for site infection for _____________.
The Joint Commission now requires organizations to collect data for six mandatory inpatient measures to meeting performance measure requirements for its disease-specific care advanced certification in heart failure.
As a new year dawns, accreditation professionals look ahead at where the problematic and challenging areas will be for the coming 12 months. A good starting point for many is the annual list of most-cited standards from The Joint Commission. This year, as in years past, the top 10...
Few health emergencies have the ability to ignite such widespread panic as a potential epidemic. In the previous decade, hospitals have dealt with public health scares surrounding SARS, bird flu, and H1N1, but in 2014, Ebola has moved front and center in the U.S., a country that previously...