Preaccreditation jitters: Is your ASC infected?
Ambulatory Quality and Compliance Insider, April 1, 2008
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Preaccreditation jitters (PAJ) occur on a regular basis in ambulatory surgery centers (ASC) throughout America. Most administrative personnel anticipate the onset of PAJ months in advance of their survey. PAJ can have a devastating effect on workplace stress, staff morale, employee health, and productivity.
Although the folks in IT departments have no trouble understanding the classic GIGO formula—garbage in, garbage out—the risk management committees, administrators, and physicians doing the peer review seem to suffer from an occupational blind spot. If medical transcribers can easily identify the chronic conditions that provoke PAJ, why can’t those of us so close to the core do the same? Why can’t PAJ be avoided? Come April 15, will the news media have its cameras out as taxpayers rush to the post office to file their returns before the midnight deadline? Planning a story about people who wait until the last minute to do their taxes is a no-brainer for news editors.
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