In preparing your facility for initial accreditation by Joint Commission, you are trying to improve the process of ongoing record review. All health record reviews are presently performed by a team of Him department personnel. The committee meets quarterly and reports to a Quality Management Committee. In reviewing Joint Commission standards your first recommended change is to

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Joint Commission standards emphasize the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in healthcare, and providing for record reviews to be performed by an interdisciplinary team of care providers aligns with this emphasis. This approach can help to ensure that all aspects of patient care are being evaluated and can provide a more comprehensive perspective on the quality of care being provided. Additionally, involving physicians, nurses, and other care providers in the review process can help to promote buy-in and engagement with quality improvement efforts. Having more frequent committee meetings or reporting to a different committee may be beneficial, but these changes alone may not address the need for more interdisciplinary collaboration. Having a physician perform all the reviews may not be feasible given the time and resource constraints of busy clinicians, and may not align with the collaborative approach advocated by Joint Commission standards.

In Preparing Your Facility for Initial Accreditation by Joint Commission