This patient rights standard has implications for IC
Briefings on Infection Control, February 1, 2009
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- Recognize how Joint Commission standard RI.01.03.01 on informed consent is tied to a hospital’s IC efforts
- Describe four key elements of an informed consent process
- Explain how hospitals can meet the standard
A new 2009 Joint Commission standard requires hospitals to tell patients that the facility may need to disclose certain information about them to federal or local officials for tracking purposes—including whether they have diseases or conditions such as TB, HIV, or viral meningitis.
Although this was also a requirement in the 2008 version of The Joint Commission’s (formerly JCAHO) informed consent standard, this requirement is now its own scorable “C” element of performance (EP) under the new version of the standard, RI.01.03.01. “This means that it will be more visible this year and easier to score than its predecessor 2008 requirement,” says Jennifer Cowel, RN, MHSA, vice president and principal at Patton Healthcare Consulting, LLC, in Glendale, AZ.
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