title: High standards: ISO 9000 comes to health care.
abstract: ISO 9000, an international quality system, is catching on in health care. Providers see it as a much less expensive alternative or as a complement to the JCAHO. And because ISO has been used for years in manufacturing, it has one big advantage over JCAHO: employers know it and trust it.
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Moore
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation; D002568:Certification / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005568:Forms and Records Control / Q000592:standards; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000592:standards*; D017721:Hospital Costs; D007221:Industry / Q000592:standards; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D008145:Louisiana; D008330:Management Audit; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D014481:United States