The Joint Commission has published five strategies to help organizations comply with standard WT.03.01.01, which requires staff and licensed independent practitioners performing waived tests are competent and features six elements of performance.
The standard, which applies to ambulatory healthcare, behavioral healthcare, home care, hospitals, laboratories, long term care, and office-based, was one of the 10 most problematic standards during the first half of 2011 for long term care organizations (16 percent of organizations noncompliant) and office-based surgery practices (17 percent of organizations noncompliant).
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The strategies are published in a column titled "5 Sure-Fire Methods: Complying With WT.03.01.01" in The Joint Commission's The Source publication.
The column is written by Jay Afrow, DMD, MHA, surveyor for The Joint Commission, and John Gibson, MA, MT (ASCP), DLM., associate director of the standards interpretations group for The Joint Commission.
View the "5 Sure-Fire Methods: Complying With WT.03.01.01" article by clicking here (pdf).
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