Data to help JCAHO pinpoint problem areas.
One change under the JCAHO's "Agenda for Change" will involve the commission's relationship with the healthcare organizations themselves. Hospitals can expect more visits and more contact of all kinds. More importantly, the JCAHO will use clinical data and responses to questionnaires to track potential trouble spots. When the survey team comes around, it'll be able to zero in.
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D000068:Accreditation / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States