An outpatient antibacterial stewardship intervention during the journey to JCI accreditation

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Intervention for improving the appropriateness of physician orders for oral medications in geriatric VIP patients during the journey to JCI accreditation

Correspondence: Quan Zhou Department of Pharmacy, The Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang 310009, China Tel +86 571 8778 4615 Fax +86 571-8702 2776 Email [email protected] Dear editor We read with great interest the study by Fadare et al, who assessed the prescribing pattern for elderly Nigerian outpatients and concluded that polypharmacy and th...

An empirical test of accreditation patient journey surveys: randomized trial.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of utilizing the patient journey survey (PJS) method in healthcare accreditation processes. DESIGN Randomized trial of the PJS method in parallel with the current accreditation survey (CAS) method of the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS). SETTING Acute healthcare organizations in Australia. PARTICIPANTS Seventeen organizations, 28 or...

An Audit of Emergency Department Accreditation Based on Joint Commission International Standards (JCI)

INTRODUCTION Despite thousands of years from creation of medical knowledge, it not much passes from founding the health care systems. Accreditation is an effective mechanism for performance evaluation, quality enhancement, and the safety of health care systems. This study was conducted to assess the results of emergency department (ED) accreditation in Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital, Tehran, Iran, ...

Vaccines and Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship.

Antibiotics pose a great public health irony. Their existence and use have made possible the treatment of previously untreatable infections. But simultaneously, rampant antibiotic overuse has promoted the development of antibiotic resistance and new untreatable, highly resistant infections. To address this growing threat, The National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria esta...