It’s something that emergency physician Edwin Leap wonders as a surprise visit sends his ED into disarray.
He wonders if the fear that accompanies the Joint Commission is really the best way to improve patient care by disrupting normal workflow where doctors and nurses do their absolute best to care for patients:
JCAHO descends like a pack of hyenas, dismembering order and good sense, and leaving all the staff scurrying around in terror; and hiding their coffee cups, call schedules, food and anything else one might reasonably expect to see at any sane nursing station.
“It’s tragic and comic,” says Dr. Leap.
Indeed.
topics: jcaho, hospital
