Inside the Joint Commission - Volume 21, Issue 1

Inside the Joint Commission, January 11, 2016

January 11, 2016
Accreditation & Survey Preparation
Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

FDA to crack down on medical device safety

January 5, 2016
Patient Safety

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will be taking a stronger stance on the reporting possible medical device hazards in 2016.

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

How do you determine if someone is brain-dead? Study shows hospitals disagree

January 5, 2016
Policies and Procedures

Determining if a patient’s brain functions have irreversibly shut down is a crucial diagnosis; in many places it’s the same as declaring them fully dead.

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

Fighting drug-resistant disease in 2016

January 5, 2016
Patient Safety

One of healthcare’s biggest concerns has been the misuse of antibiotics and resulting rise in drug-resistant bacteria and infections.

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

Tracer tactics to survive a Joint Commission survey

January 4, 2016

Remember that the tracer methodology is not a static process; it is evolutionary. As organizational priorities, standards, and systems change, so will your tracer tools—and so will the process for conducting your tracers.

Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 27, Issue 1

BOAQ 2015 index

January 1, 2016
Accreditation & Survey Preparation

This index provides you with a handy listing of all the articles in Briefings on Accreditation and Quality (formerly known as Briefings on The Joint Commission) in 2015.

Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 27, Issue 1

Restraints and seclusion: What accreditation professionals need to know

January 1, 2016
Patient Safety

After decades of discussion, the use of restraints and seclusion in healthcare is still a hot topic.

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 17, Issue 1

Joint Commission releases 2016 NPSGs, but not much has changed

January 1, 2016

The Joint Commission has officially released the 2016 National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) with very few changes from the 2015 regulations.

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 17, Issue 1

Patient Safety Monitor Journal, January 2016

January 1, 2016
Patient Safety

Electronic health records (EHR) may represent the future of medicine, but as of now, the technology is still going through some serious growing pains.

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 17, Issue 1

USP updates target patient safety concerns within compounding pharmaceuticals

January 1, 2016
Quality & Errors

Five years after pharmaceutical experts began reviewing changes to sterile preparation requirements for pharmaceutical compounding, the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has released proposed regulatory updates aimed at preventing patient harm.

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