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Rebecca Voelker, JAMA contributor

JAMA. 1998;279:1058.

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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, based in Oakbrook Terrace, Ill, announced last month that it will offer international accreditation services beginning in 1999.

"Although there are significant cultural differences from country to country, we believe there are important commonalities in expectations regarding patient care and health care organization management," said Dennis S. O'Leary, MD, president of the Joint Commission.

The Joint Commission has been offering international consultation services through Joint Commission International (JCI), a partnership developed 4 years ago with its principal not-for-profit subsidiary, Quality Healthcare Resources Inc. More recently JCI has gone into partnership with organizations in other countries to establish accrediting bodies specific to those countries. To date, JCI has consulted in more than 30 nations.

The endeavor comes at a time when US-based health care organizations are beginning to expand their operations overseas, often introducing new expectations about health care . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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