I have never been a big fan of the Joint Commission because I feel they have often imposed testing standards merely for their surveyors to have something that was measurable. These standards sometimes caused us to waste valuable resources routinely testing devices when evidence showed that there was no benefit to the testing. Each year biomedical engineering departments collectively perform hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of tests.
Author: Frank Magnarelli
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