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The 2016 Hospital Accreditation Standards (HAS) aims to keep accreditation leaders, managers, and frontline staff up to date with the requirements necessary to achieve and maintain Joint Commission hospital accreditation. This abridged version of the Comprehensive Accreditation manual for Hospitals (CAMH) provides all hospital standards, elements of performance (EPs), National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs), and Accreditation Participation Requirements (APRs) effective January 1, 2016.

This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies.

Meeting Accreditation Standards: A Pharmacy Preparation Guide is the only book to cover all the latest major accreditation standards. Highlights include: Major changes including revised survey processes and streamlined standards to emphasize CMS’s focus on safety and improving the quality of patient care New chapters for the fourth accreditation organization CIHQ, Antimicrobial Stewardship, and Pain Management Addresses the standards and requirements effective from July 2019 to the extent that they are known Contains the most up-to-date medication management (MM) standards and requirements and the medication-related 2019 NPSGs and their requirements