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| Ambulatory Quality and Compliance Insider |
| July 2008 |
| How to comply with critical-result reporting requirements |
| Keep your lists of critical tests and critical results and values short and minimize the number of handoffs between the testing area and the licensed practitioner if you want to pass muster during survey time, says Gayla Jackson, RN, BSN, author of Critical Test Results Troubleshooter: Practical Strategies and Tools for JCAHO Compliance, and a nurse manager at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, MA.
Only 79% of ambulatory surgery centers (ASC) complied with the requirements for critical test reporting during the third quarter of 2007, the second lowest compliance rate of all of the National Patient Safety Goals, according to the Joint Commission (formerly JCAHO) Web site. |
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