Which of the following are considered core measures and monitored by The Joint Commission? (Select all that apply.)
a. Code arrests infection rates
b. Advance directives
c. Medication error rates
d. Nurse staffing and vacation patterns
e. Restraint use
f. Numbers of hospital admissions
A, B, C, E
The Joint Commission mandates that organizations continuously track certain core measures in order to monitor quality care. Some of these include advance directives, autopsy rates, leaving against medical advice (AMA) and elopement rates, blood product use rates, blood transfusion reaction rates, code blue rates, conscious sedation complication rates, fall rates, medication error rates, mortality rates, pain management effectiveness, restraint use, perinatal care, rates of deep vein thrombosis, and surgical-site infection rates. Nurse staffing and vacation patterns and track-ing hospital admissions are not core measures.
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