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Legal Aspects of Antibiotic Audit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Harry C. Nottebart Jr.
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In first examining the legal aspects of an antibiotic audit, it might be well to consider the legal basis or reason to do such an audit.

A hospital may be compelled to act in certain ways in order to comply with standards based on:

1. Federal laws

2. State laws, particularly those on hospital licensure.

3. Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAH) standards if the hospital is JCAH accredited.

4. The hospital's own bylaws, rules and regulations, and policies and procedures.

5. Certain actions are also based on duties perceived from reading opinions in lawsuits. This even may be reflected in changes in the hospital's bylaws, rules and regulations, or policies and procedures.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , February 1984 , pp. 93 - 94
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1984

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