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Questioning the inspectors
- Source :
- Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Vol 8, Iss 3, Pp 188-189 (2014)
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Arizona Thoracic Society, 2014.
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Abstract
- No abstract available. Article truncated after 150 words. In the early twentieth century hospitals were unregulated and care was arbitrary, nonscientific and often poor. The Flexner report of 1910 and the establishment of hospital standards by the American College of Surgeons in 1918 began the process of hospital inspection and improvement (1). The later program eventually evolved into what we know today as the Joint Commission. Veterans Administration (VA) hospitals have been inspected and accredited by the Joint Commission since the Reagan administration. The VA hospitals often share reports regarding recent Joint Commission inspections and disseminate the reports as a "briefing". One of these briefings from a recent Amarillo VA inspection was widely distributed as an email attachment and forwarded to me (for a copy of the briefing click here). There were several items in the briefing that are noteworthy. One was on the first page (highlighted in the attachment) where the briefing stated, "Surveyor recommended teaching people ...
- Subjects :
- Amarillo VA
business.industry
lcsh:R5-130.5
education
lcsh:Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid
patient outcomes
Joint Commission
oxygen therapy
lcsh:RC86-88.9
humanities
smoking
facial burn
smoking cessation
Veterans Administration
Medicine
hospital staffing
business
lcsh:General works
hospital inspection
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 21606773
- Volume :
- 8
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....03b3bdab6b98fab6983362c4227342aa