| Subject: | JCAHO To Require Performance Improvement Data Collection on Organ Procurement |
| Category: | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
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| Published: | Mon, 22 Nov 2004 - 10:00 am |
| The JCAHO has included a requirement for healthcare organizations to collect data that measures the effectiveness of their organ procurement program, under standard PI.1.10. The revision is currently under field review and falls under the elements of performance for this PI standard. Data collection and analysis is to include the organ procurement conversion rate (which is the number of actual organ donors over the number of eligible donors as defined by the Department of Health and Human... The full article is available to StayAlert subscribers. Click here for a free trial subscription. |
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