Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes
Published on Wed Apr 07, 2010
• You can stop worrying about coming up with a list of approved abbreviations, symbols, and dose designations if you're accredited by The Joint Commission. When the accrediting body formerly known as JCAHO revised its National Patient Safety Goal on abbreviations this year, "organizations were confused by the new language," the Commission says on its website. They thought the new language "seemed to imply that organizations had to create lists of approved abbreviations, acronyms, symbols, and dose designations." But "this was not the intention of the revision," stresses the Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.-based Commission. The language will revert back to its 2009 version starting July 1.
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Home Health & Hospice Week
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