Joint Commission cracks down on disruptive clinicians
Ambulatory Quality and Compliance Insider, September 1, 2008
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Dictatorial docs who demean, bully, or otherwise behave badly may want to get in touch with their kinder, gentler side.
Beginning January 1, 2009, new standards from The Joint Commission (formerly JCAHO) will require ambulatory surgery centers (ASC) to have protocols to put cantankerous clinicians in their place—or else. The accreditor issued a Sentinel Event Alert in July warning that disruptive behavior by physicians, or any clinicians for that matter, pose a threat to patient safety.
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