| Subject: | JCAHO Proposing Addition of Race, Ethnicity and Primary Language Spoken to Medical Record Content |
| Category: | The Joint Commission (TJC)
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| Published: | Thu, 3 Mar 2005 - 10:00 am |
| In the proposed new language to the JCAHO's Management of Information Standard IM.6.20, the JCAHO has added the requirement to capture and document the patient's race, ethnicity and primary language spoken. These are new medical record content requirements for hospital, long term care, home care and ambulatory care programs. The requirement for behavioral health programs previously included capture and documentation of rate and ethnicity, and now includes primary language spoken. The new... The full article is available to StayAlert subscribers. Click here for a free trial subscription. |
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