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1988 Joint Commission survey in a community hospital
Hospital Pharmacy
|March 10, 1989
Abstract:
JCAHO is increasingly emphasizing the importance of quality patient care and has recently mandated the involvement of pharmacy to help optimize patient care. To comply with the JCAHO requirements, the pharmacy department must develop standards and protocols that are ultimately designed to improve patient care. This article describes how we optimized patient care by complying with the JCAHO standards and prepared for the survey.