JCAHO releases a slew of new FAQs
Accreditation Connection, June 13, 2005
If you caught spring fever, you may have missed one of the 26 new, revised, or updated hospital frequently asked questions
(FAQ) posted to the JCAHO Web site in April alone--and so might your surveyors, who were likewise not notified, according to a source close to the JCAHO.
The JCAHO develops FAQs in response to multiple requests for clarification of standards, elements of performance, or National Patient Safety Goals and requirements.
Although the JCAHO cautions that advice given in FAQs is not necessarily the only way to comply, it does consider it an "authoritative clarification." In the field, FAQs are widely considered to be just as good as the only way to comply. Some surveyors use them while on surveys for standards interpretation.
Unfortunately, both the field and surveyors were caught off-guard by this flurry, says the source close to the JCAHO. Many are still unaware of the changes.
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