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Despite his modesty about his work and life, James L. Reinertsen, MD, received a 2010 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality award for individual achievement from The Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum.
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From new and revised standards to new levels of accreditation, this year will bring some changes in Joint Commission expectations.
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When Intermountain Healthcare's LDS Hospital joined with the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare and nine other hospitals to work on hand-offs, the health system's associate chief medical officer says the first step was identifying which hand-offs the hospital wanted to work on.
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[In the first two articles of this series, Vicki Searcy, president, consulting services at Morrisey Associates Inc. in Chicago, introduced the four basic components of clinical privileging as well as creating criteria for privileges:
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It was the first Joint Commission survey for Elizabeth Donnenwirth, RN, accreditation/sharps safety specialist at Winchester Hospital in Winchester, MA. But she says there weren't many surprises.
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IRBs should work to create balanced IRB discussions and ensure cooperation between members of diverse backgrounds.
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IRBs can learn a great deal from each other. One research institution's hard-earned lesson and resolution can be another organization's best practices.
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When and how to release biomarker results is complicated issue for researchers, IRBs
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The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) has posted its updated and finalized guidance on the IRB continuing review process.
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IRBs often do a good, or at least adequate, job of maintaining required documentation for studies they review, but there are several key documentation areas in which many IRBs need to improve, according to experts.
