title: New JCAHO standards require board certification or equivalent for all clinical department heads.
abstract: Among several changes in standards for 1992 by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is one requiring that physicians heading clinical departments in hospitals be board certified in that clinical specialty or demonstrate comparable competence in the specialty. Previously, only a handful of clinical department heads faced that requirement.
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authors.lastname: Burda
mesh_terms: D002568:Certification; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D008486:Physician Executives / Q000592:standards*; D013044:Specialty Boards; D014481:United States