title: New guideline represents 'processed-oriented' approach for ISO 9000.
abstract: Hospitals that have been tracking the development of ISO 9000 in the health care industry should pay close attention to a new guideline about to emerge. According to Laura Preole, health care services manager of SGS International Certification Services based in Rutherford, NJ, the new guideline is the latest step in an effort to establish a more 'process-oriented' method of looking at the health care environment from the moment a patient walks into a facility to the moment he or she is discharged.
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D004865:Equipment and Supplies, Hospital / Q000592:standards; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D019981:Health Care Sector / Q000592:standards; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007390:International Agencies; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care; D011786:Quality Control; D014481:United States