| Subject: | The Joint Commission Seeking Volunteers To Pilot Test Draft Tobacco and Alcohol Use Screening and Treatment Performance Measures |
| Category: | The Joint Commission (TJC)
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| Published: | Mon, 11 Jan 2010 - 11:00 am |
| The Joint Commission (TJC) is seeking volunteer hospitals to pilot test draft performance measures for tobacco and alcohol screening and use. TJC has developed eight draft measures designed to address the assessment and treatment of tobacco, alcohol, other drug use and dependence for hospitalized patients and is now preparing to conduct a 6-month pilot test to assess the reliability of the measures and their associated data elements, and to obtain information about how the measures... The full article is available to StayAlert subscribers. Click here for a free trial subscription. |
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