While well-intended, this JCAHO idea-turned-mandate was quickly seized upon by people in less than legitimate pain... because that’s what people do. That the morons of JCAHO contributed so heavily to the opioid mess only to go bipolar on it is emblematic of that organization’s dysfunction. In short, the Joint Comimission is a punchline in way too many jokes.
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Originally Posted by kach22i
Thank you for the interesting retrospective.
If pain makes you want to die or is so bad that the symptoms of extreme blood pressure lead to other health emergencies including death, then yea, I'd kind of want to call it a 5th vita sign.
But I'm not in the medical profession, just an opinion.
I agree, and it is a painful course correction.
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