Coordinating functional chapters of the Joint Commission and performance for departments and teams.
This article reviews the structural changes of the Joint Commission's accreditation manual and relates how organizations can provide documentation that illustrates departmental, team, or hospital-wide efforts to improve quality. The tools reviewed in this article capture systematic performance improvement across functions and departments and include team activity. The tools also can be used as reporting documents to the governing body.
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D000068:Accreditation / Q000592:standards; D001130:Arizona; D004282:Documentation; D005568:Forms and Records Control; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D008332:Management Quality Circles; D008370:Manuals as Topic; D010934:Planning Techniques; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000458:organization & administration*