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Healthcare journalists point out difficulty of using Joint Commission’s hospital quality site

e-Patient Dave | March 4, 2010

Empowered patients know they’re responsible for their choice of care providers. We usually follow our clinicians’ advice, but we take responsibility for it. That’s hard when a quality agency obscures its findings. So I object to a reality reported this week by AHCJ, the Association of Health Care Journalists:  Joint Commission site obscures information. Excerpt: (emphasis added)