Welcome to the physician section of the Joint Commission website. We would like to encourage you to save this site to your favorites and visit often.   

What's New

• Leadership in Healthcare Organizations: A Guide to Joint Commission Leadership Standards *
• 2010 National Patient Safety Goals

News

• Joint Commission Online
• JCR Journal Articles - Updated 11/11/09
•  Sentinel Event Alert
• IN Sight
• Joint Commission research studies published in peer-reviewed publications  

Links

• Center for Transforming Healthcare
• Health Care Notification Network - a secure online service that delivers urgent patient safety alerts to healthcare providers
• Emergency Department Crowding: High-Impact Solutions
  ACEP Boarding Task Force  *
• WHO Collaborating Centre for Patient Safety Solutions
• Nine Life-Saving Patient Safety Solutions 
• WikiHealthCare^TM
• AMA:  Model Medical Staff Code of Conduct

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Quality and Safety

• Physicians and The Joint Commission:  The Patient Safety Partnership
• "Improving America's Hospitals: Annual Report on Quality and Safety - 2009"
• "Do Not Use" List
• Universal Protocol

Additional Resources

• Report a Complaint about a health care organization
• Sentinel Event Statistics
• Standards Online Question Form
• Health Care Performance Measurement Initiatives – 2006
• 'Hospital of the Future' White Paper

Monographs

• “Providing a Safer Environment for Health Care Personnel and Patients through Influenza Vaccination
• Measuring Hand Hygiene Adherence