HOSPITAL QUALITY OVERSIGHT BY THE JOINT COMMISSION ON THE ACCREDITATION OF HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS

摘要

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Science (NAS) inl999 announced the findings of several studies that estimated that medical error results in 44,000 to 98,000 deaths per year. The report, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, focused considerable attention on oversight of hospital quality. Many of the responses to the IOM's report were to either develop a medical-error reporting system or to find better standards for hospitals and other health care facilities to uphold. There has been minimal attention paid to the mechanisms of hospital quality oversight that are currently in place. Accordingly this study will analyze the system of hospital quality regulation in the United States.