Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Office-Based Surgery Practice (CAMOBS)

2008 Edition
Looseleaf Manual: 450 pages
ISBN 1599401304
9781599401300
JCAHO
January 2008
Price $265.00
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This manual features everything an ambulatory care organization needs for continuous standards compliance.

Included are standards, rationales, elements of performance, and a self-assessment grid. Key features include the following:

Standards, elements of performance, and scoring changes
A chapter featuring the current year's National Patient Safety Goals
Updated information about The Joint Commission's accreditation process
Updated information about accreditation policies and procedures, including the Sentinel Events Policy
Details regarding Quality Reports

JCAHO's mission is to continuously improve the safety and quality of care provided to the public through the provision of health care accreditation and related services that support performance improvement in health care organizations. The Joint Commission is an independent, not-for-profit organization, established more than 50 years ago. Joint Commission is governed by a board that includes physicians, nurses, and consumers. Joint Commission sets the standards by which health care quality is measured in America and around the world. The Joint Commission evaluates and accredits more than 15,000 health care organizations and programs in the US. An independent, not-for-profit organization, the Joint Commission is the nation's predominant standards-setting and accrediting body in health care. Since 1951, the Joint Commission has maintained state-of-the-art standards that focus on improving the quality and safety of care provided by health care organizations. The Joint Commission's comprehensive accreditation process evaluates an organization's compliance with these standards and other accreditation requirements.

You may also be interested in these periodicals from JCAHO:

Joint Commission Benchmark - performance improvement
Joint Commission Journal on Quality & Patient Safety - quality improvement
Joint Commission Perspectives - official JCAHO updates, extremely important
Joint Commission Perspectives on Patient Safety - analyzing & preventing errors
Joint Commission: The Source - expands on Perspectives

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