{"id":4961,"date":"2010-03-04T12:58:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T17:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmedicine.org\/epatients\/?p=4961"},"modified":"2010-03-07T11:31:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T16:31:44","slug":"healthcare-journalists-point-out-difficulty-of-using-joint-commissions-hospital-quality-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/2010\/03\/healthcare-journalists-point-out-difficulty-of-using-joint-commissions-hospital-quality-site.html","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare journalists point out difficulty of using Joint Commission&#8217;s hospital quality site"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 79px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qualitycheck.org\/consumer\/searchQCR.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" style=\"margin-right: 40px;\" title=\"Quality Check\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jointcommission.org\/jointcommission\/images\/qualitycheck\/quality.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"69\" height=\"86\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">#Fail<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Empowered patients know they&#8217;re responsible for their choice of care providers. We usually follow our clinicians&#8217; advice, but we take responsibility for it.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s hard when a quality agency obscures its findings. So<strong> <\/strong><strong>I\u00a0object <\/strong>to a reality reported this week by <a href=\"http:\/\/ahcj.org\" target=\"_blank\">AHCJ<\/a>, the Association of Health Care Journalists:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthjournalism.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/ahcj-joint-commission-site-obscures-information\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joint\u00a0Commission site obscures information<\/a>. Excerpt: <em>(emphasis added)<\/em><!--more--><br \/>\n___________<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Among the problems identified:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"line-height: 1.4em;\">Hospitals with any level of  accreditation are given \u201cThe Gold Seal of Approval\u201d\u00a0\u2013 <em>even\u00a0those whose  accreditation is conditional<\/em> or at risk  of being denied.<\/li>\n<li style=\"line-height: 1.4em;\">It\u2019s  difficult to find out which hospitals in a given region have   less-than-full accreditation. To check on a hospital\u2019s accreditation status, one has to open each individual profile. The Joint Commission   once had a mechanism to sort hospitals by accreditation status, <em>but that  is no longer available<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"line-height: 1.4em;\">After a hospital loses accreditation, its  past Accreditation  Quality Reports are eventually removed from the  site, leaving only the  facility\u2019s name <em>with no historical record.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>_________<\/p>\n<p>I spent some time looking around in the site, and indeed,when\u00a0 you list the hospitals in an area, you can&#8217;t see a thing about their status: you have to pick through the whole list, opening them one by one.<\/p>\n<p>So I called the Joint Commission and was referred to someone in communications, who would only re-state the way it is, saying the information is there (if you dig through it). I repeatedly said that <em>we want it to be easier to find<\/em>. It&#8217;ll be interesting to see whether they change it back.<\/p>\n<p>Joint Commission, please hear this: healthcare citizens need <strong>clear, easy access <\/strong>to this pivotal information: <strong>&#8220;What\u00a0are my options, for quality, convenience and price?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We want to make informed choices &#8211; especially on the quality of the provider who&#8217;s going to cut our mother open and then care for her. <strong>Please help us make informed choices.<\/strong> Make the differences easier to see.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to AHCJ for doing this work and reporting it; thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/runningahospital.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/ahcj-to-jc-please-be-less-obscure.html\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Levy&#8217;s blog<\/a> at Beth Israel Deaconess for bringing this up.<\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><sup>Related e-patient resources:<\/sup><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"line-height: 1.4em;\"><sup><a href=\"http:\/\/healthnewsreview.org\/\">Health News Review<\/a>, a great place to learn how to think critically about published health information<\/sup><\/li>\n<li style=\"line-height: 1.4em;\"><sup>Trisha Torrey&#8217;s book <a href=\"http:\/\/youbetyourlifebooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">You Bet Your Life: Ten Mistakes Every Patient Makes<\/a>, which teaches patients to wise up about the business of healthcare.<\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empowered patients know they&#8217;re responsible for their choice of care providers. 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