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Standards & Evidence

An extensible, versioned standards layer. Requirement text is loaded from an authorized knowledge base — AccrediSense never invents a requirement.

JCI Hospital Standards

active

8th Edition · effective 2025-01-01

1,218

requirements

JCI Hospital Standards

retired

7th Edition · effective 2021-01-01

1,147

requirements

CBAHI Hospital Standards

active

3rd Edition · effective 2024-06-01

892

requirements

NABH Hospital Standards

draft

6th Edition · effective 2024-01-01

651

requirements

International Patient Safety Goals · IPSG.1 · REQ-IPSG-1.1

Patient identification before care delivery

critical

Authorized requirement text is loaded from the licensed standards knowledge base. This placeholder describes the expectation that at least two patient identifiers are used before any diagnostic or therapeutic intervention.

Source: Authorized knowledge base · JCI 8th Edition · version 8.0

Evidence expectations

  • Approved patient identification policy
  • Competency records for clinical staff
  • Observational audit results (last 90 days)
  • Incident reports involving misidentification

Applicable departments

Emergency, ICU, Nursing, Laboratory

Applicable roles

Nurse, Physician, Phlebotomist

Related requirements

REQ-MMU-4.2, REQ-COP-2.1

24

Evidence

2

Gaps

88%

Coverage

Evidence graph

Requirement → Evidence → Practice. Missing links are what a surveyor finds first.

RequirementHospital PolicyProcedureTrainingStaff CompetencyActual PracticeAudit EvidenceTracer EvidenceGraph rooted at REQ-IPSG-1.1

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