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Kidney Advisory Committee

JAMA. 1973;226(1):45-49.

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Under a contract agreement with the Regional Medical Programs Service (RMPS), the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAH) constituted a Steering Committee and four advisory subcommittees to identify optimal criteria for the classification of hospitals according to their capability of providing a specified level of stratified care for patients with heart disease, cancer, stroke, or end-stage kidney disease. One of the purposes of this undertaking is to fulfill a major requirement of Section 907 of Public Law 89-239 (as amended by Public Law 91-515) to develop for the Secretary, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, criteria for the identification of medical facilities in the United States, capable of providing the most advanced techniques and methods for diagnosis and treatment of the four subject diseases. Another purpose of the contract is to prepare an inventory of the specialized resources and facilities available in US hospitals that relate to these criteria . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals: John D. Porterfield, MD, Director (Ernest Lovell Becker, MD, Chairman; Belding H. Scribner, MD, Samuel L. Kountz, MD, Robert L. Vernier, MD, J. Hartwell Harrison, MD, Milton Elkin, MD, Gustave Dammin, MD, and H. Earl Ginn, MD, Members; Peter M. Marano, Project Director; Margaret H. Sloan, MD, and Morton Robins, Project Officers), Chicago.

Footnotes
Statements contained in these committee reports are not to be regarded as representative of the views of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals prior to its approval by its Board of Commissioners.

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