Hospital Accreditation Organization Criticized
January 15, 2002
A study published in this month's issue of Quality Management in Health Care claims that the United States' hospital accreditation organization, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, fails to take into account several important medical factors when determining if a hospital should receive the group's stamp of approval. John R. Griffith, a University of Michigan researcher who co-authored the study, says the commission gives hospitals that have higher-than-average death rates positive scores. Griffith says accreditation is improperly based on a hospital's "structure and processes."
The study examined accreditations at over 700 hospitals. The new report comes two years after the Department of Health and Human Services criticized the commission for accreditation improprieties.
-- Article Courtesy of InjuryBoard.com
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