Joint Commission report shows quality gains.
Greatest improvement occurred in providing smoking cessation advice to patients admitted to the hospital with pneumonia. Pneumococcol vaccinations, discharge instructions for heart failure patients need improvement. Low compliance with timeout standards remains a nagging problem.
D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards*; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States