| Subject: | The Joint Commission's Standards on Restraint and Seclusion for Hospitals |
| Category: | The Joint Commission (TJC)
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| Published: | Tue, 9 Jun 2009 - 06:00 am |
| Since the release of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid's (CMS) final rule on patient rights in December 2006, there has been discrepancy between the CMS and The Joint Commission's (TJC) restraint and seclusion requirements. According to TJC, CMS requirements for restraint and seclusion are behavior based while TJCs standards are purpose driven. With the 2009 standards, TJC has determined there is no way to merge the CMS and TJC approaches into a single set of standards... The full article is available to StayAlert subscribers. Click here for a free trial subscription. |
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