JCAHO Changes for 2003 and Beyond

JCAHO Changes for 2003 and Beyond

There will be few changes in 2003 in terms of changes to JCAHO standards. Instead, the accreditor will focus on how hospitals adopt the new standards for pain management, staffing effectiveness, patient safety, and emergency management as well as compliance with patient safety goals.

In addition, healthcare professionals are gearing up for the proposed medication standards, still in review and due to take effect in January 2004.

To that effect, our new special report JCAHO Changes for 2003 and Beyond takes a close look at the overall drive to improve medication safety, the essence behind the revised standards.

This informative special report also talks about the JCAHO's new "shared pathways" approach and how the new tracer methodology in the survey process affects how you prepare for survey. It will show you how to engage physicians in the accreditation process as well as offer coverage of the new emergency credentialing standard. With sample forms and policies and helpful how-to information, we hope this special report makes your accreditation survey process easier.

This special report covers the following topics:

• The JCAHO's strategies to improve accreditation
• The JCAHO's revised 2004 survey agenda
• Pilot hospitals discuss "Shared Visions—New Pathways"
• The JCAHO answers media questions about physician engagement, the self-assessment tool, and more
• Proposed standards push hospitals to create processes that forge safe medication practices
• Medication standards timeline
• Establishing a nonpunitive philosophy extends to medication practices
• Sample patient safety plan
• Sample incident reporting policy
• Sample incident report follow-up letter
• Can you tell the difference between a medication error and a near-miss?
• Sample problem reporting and nonretaliation policy
• Classify medication errors to improve weak systems
• Sample definitions for adverse drug reactions and medication errors
• Get your doctors on board with accreditation
• Moderate (conscious) sedation physician champion role responsibilities
• Restraint physician champion role responsibilities
• An emergency credentialing option for 2002 and beyond
• Be prepared and include in your disaster plan an emergency privileging policy
• Case study: a New York hospital resorts to emergency credentialing
• Sample record of patients seen by practitioner during emergency
• JCAHO task force finishes review of MS standards

Publisher :  HCPro, Inc
 
Product Types :

• Reports

Departments :

• Other Accreditation Products