Comments on: JCAHO Regains it Senses http://gruntdoc.com/2007/06/jcaho-regains-it-senses.html Ramblings of an Emergency Physician in Texas Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:40:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: N=1 http://gruntdoc.com/2007/06/jcaho-regains-it-senses.html/comment-page-1#comment-6154 N=1 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:30:44 +0000 http://gruntdoc.com/2007/06/jcaho-regains-it-senses.html#comment-6154 OK - I must be missing something here - what about critical access hospitals without an ED attending on site? Or where the ED doc is on call? And how does that standard impact pre-hospital care by medics working from algorithms? Are they mandating changes in how ED docs interface with field medics around medication administration? This seems to be such a pot-holed road to go down.... I wonder if the JCAHO folks would just hold off and instead let the IHI take the initiative to develop standards around ED safe medication administration - that would much more pragmatic and palatable. OK – I must be missing something here – what about critical access hospitals without an ED attending on site? Or where the ED doc is on call?

And how does that standard impact pre-hospital care by medics working from algorithms? Are they mandating changes in how ED docs interface with field medics around medication administration?

This seems to be such a pot-holed road to go down…. I wonder if the JCAHO folks would just hold off and instead let the IHI take the initiative to develop standards around ED safe medication administration – that would much more pragmatic and palatable.

]]> By: kurt http://gruntdoc.com/2007/06/jcaho-regains-it-senses.html/comment-page-1#comment-6152 kurt Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:16:17 +0000 http://gruntdoc.com/2007/06/jcaho-regains-it-senses.html#comment-6152 Makes sense to me. All the red tape worries me more and more. Let doctors and nurses do what they do best: care for the patient in an efficient and rapid fashion. Makes sense to me. All the red tape worries me more and more. Let doctors and nurses do what they do best: care for the patient in an efficient and rapid fashion.

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