Joint Commission of Accreditation of Healthcare Organization accreditation for the office-based oral and maxillofacial surgeon

Orville Palmer; Phillip McIver

doi:10.1016/j.cden.2008.02.009

Joint Commission of Accreditation of Healthcare Organization accreditation for the office-based oral and maxillofacial surgeon

Dent Clin North Am. 2008 Jul;52(3):641-51, xi. doi: 10.1016/j.cden.2008.02.009.

Authors

Orville Palmer¹, Phillip McIver

Affiliation

¹ Division of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Surgery, Harlem Hospital Center, 506 Lenox Avenue, New York, NY 10037, USA. odp3@columbia.edu <odp3@columbia.edu>

PMID: 18501740
DOI: 10.1016/j.cden.2008.02.009

Abstract

Office-based surgery has become a vital component of the practice of oral and maxillofacial surgeons and periodontists. It has enabled these specialties to provide needed service to patients in an outpatient setting, including the option of intravenous sedation. It is the stance of this article to promote professional oversight and quality assurance through accreditation by the Joint Commission to maintain a standard in the delivery of office-based surgical services, thus upholding the integrity of the profession in the clinical setting.

MeSH terms

Accreditation / standards*
Ambulatory Surgical Procedures / standards*
Communication
Dental Offices / standards*
Dental Records / standards
Drug Labeling / standards
Humans
Infection Control, Dental / standards
Interprofessional Relations
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations* / organization & administration
Organizational Objectives
Patient Identification Systems
Patient Participation
Quality Assurance, Health Care
Risk Management / standards
Safety / standards
Surgery, Oral / standards*
United States