In Preparing Your Facility for Initial Accreditation by Joint Commission

question 599

Multiple Choice

In preparing your facility for initial accreditation by Joint Commission, you are trying to improve the process of ongoing record review. All health record reviews are presently performed by a team of Him department personnel. The committee meets quarterly and reports to a Quality Management Committee. In reviewing Joint Commission standards your first recommended change is to

• A) have more frequent committee meetings.
• B) have the committee report to the Executive Committee.
• C) have a physician perform all the reviews.
• D) provide for record reviews to be performed by an interdisciplinary team of care providers.

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