Joint
Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety Also known as "Joint Commission Journal on
Quality Improvement" and "Joint Commission Journal on Quality and
Safety"
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If your facility is currently accredited or is
seeking accreditation, you need to have this publication delivered
to your desk each month.
This is the only monthly peer-reviewed journal
devoted to quality improvement. The Joint Commission
Journal on Quality and Safety has a new name, a new
look, and a new emphasis on practical ways to improve quality and
safety.
The
Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Safety serves as a forum for
practical approaches to
improving quality and safety in health care. The Journal
provides an ongoing resource and reference regarding the methods that organizations and
clinicians, administrators, physicians, nurses, and other staff are
utilizing in
assessing and improving quality and safety.
Articles provide
in-depth case studies that help readers to adopt or adapt methods,
programs, and strategies to their own settings. The material
presented in this JCAHO publication is applicable to hospitals, hospital
systems, integrated delivery systems, ambulatory settings, long term
care settings, and behavioral care settings, and other settings.
In addition to feature articles, full-length descriptions of
quality and safety programs, methods, or strategies, including the
rationale, planning, implementation, evaluation, and lessons
learned, the Journal also offers shorter articles in
departments such as Interviews, Field Notes, Tool Tutorials, and
Case Studies in Brief.You can
view a sample article here from a previous year's edition.
Subscribers will also have password
access to archived previous editions on the internet. Who within your organization should read and have access to the Journal?
CEOs of health care organizations
quality improvement and
performance improvement professionals
medical directors
nursing administrators
medical librarians
consultants
payers and purchasers
health policy makers
health
professions educators
health services researchers
utilization
review directors
risk management directors, and
virtually anyone with
an interest in or responsibility for quality and safety
The Journal offers case studies and
success stories with practical advice and suggestions straight
from the practitioners and experts in quality and safety. The
editorial advisory board of this Journal includes:
Steven I.
Altchuler, M.D., Ph.D., Consultant in Psychiatry, Mayo Clinic,
Rochester, Minnesota
Joanne Disch,
Ph.D., FAAN, Professor and Director, Katharine J. Densford
International Center for Nursing Leadership, Katherine R. and C.
Walton Lillehei Chair in Nursing Leadership School of Nursing,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
R. Adams
Dudley, M.D., M.B.A., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health
Policy, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics, Division of Pulmonary
and Critical Care and Institute for Health Policy Studies,
University of California, San Francisco
Alan J.
Forster, M.D. M.Sc., Scientist, Clinical Epidemiology Unit,
Ottawa Health Research Institute, Assistant Professor,,
Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Active Staff,
Division of General Internal Medicine, Ottawa Hospital-Civic
Campus, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Harold I.
Goldberg, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Division of General
Internal Medicine, Director, Clinical Informatics Development,,
UW Medicine IT Services, University of Washington, Seattle,
Washington
John W.
Gosbee, M.D., M.S., Human Factors Engineering and Healthcare
Specialist, National Center for Patient Safety, Veterans
Healthcare Administration (VHA), Ann Arbor, Michigan
Paul H.
Keckley, Ph.D., Executive Director, Vanderbilt Center for
Evidence-based Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center,
Advisor, HealthGate, Nashville, Tennessee
Diane Kelly,
Dr.PH., M.B.A, R.N., Assistant Administrator of Quality, St.
Mark’s Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah
Tina Maund,
M.S., R.N., C.P.H.Q., Director, Performance Improvement,
Atlantic Health System/Overlook Hospital, Summit, New Jersey
David Marx,
M.D., Advisor, Chairman of the Senate on Issues of Social and
Health Policy, Chair, Task Force for International
Accreditation-Joint Commission, International, and Member, Board
of Directors, Joint Commission Resources, Head, Paediatric
Gastroenterology Team, Adolescent Medicine University Hospital,
Prague
R. Michael
Massanari, M.D., M.S., Director, Center for Healthcare
Effectiveness Research, Professor of Medicine, Wayne State
University, Detroit, Michigan
Harvey J.
Murff, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department
of Veterans Affairs, VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System,
GRECC, Nashville, Tennessee
John
Øvretveit, M.Phil., Ph.D., C.Psychol, M.H.S.M., Director of
Research, The Karolinska Institute Medical Management Centre,
Stockholm, Professor of Health Management, The Nordic School of
Public Health, Gothenburg, Sweden, Bergen University Faculty of
Medicine, Bergen, Norway
Ginette A.
Pepper, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., Professor and Helen Bamberger
Colby Presidential Endowed Chair in Gerontological Nursing,
University of Utah College of Nursing, Salt Lake City, Utah
Marcia Mary
Piotrowski, R.N., M.S., Infection Control Coordinator, VA
Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan'
Peter J.
Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine, Surgery, Nursing and
Health Policy and Management, Medical Director, Center for
Innovations in Quality Patient Care, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Gina
Pugliese, R.N., M.S., Vice President, Premier Safety Institute,
Oakbrook, Illinois, Associate Faculty, University of Illinois,
School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and
Biostatistics and College of Nursing, Rush University, Chicago
Dr Charles
D. Shaw, CASPE Research, London, United Kingdom
Kaveh G.
Shojania, M.D., Scientist, Ottawa Health Research Institute,
Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Ottawa, The
Ottawa Hospital-Civic Campus, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
David J.
Shulkin, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, Temple University
Hospital, Philadelphia
James G.
Stevenson, Pharm.D., Professor of Pharmacy and Associate Dean
for Clinical Sciences, College of Pharmacy University of
Michigan, Director of Pharmacy Services, University of Michigan
Hospitals, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Takahiro
Souma, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
(Pulmonary Surgery Division), Kyorin University Hospital, Tokyo,
Japan
Anuwat
Supachutikul, M.D., Chief Executive Officer, Institute of
Hospital Quality Improvement & Accreditation, Nonthabuti,
Thailand
Giorgio
Vittadini, Ph.D., Scientific Director, International
Interuniversity Centre of Research for Public Utility Services
(CRISP), Full Professor of Methodological Statistics, University
of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Saul
Weingart, M.D., Ph.D. (2005), Vice President for Patient Safety,
Director of the Center for Patient Safety, Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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.
