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Posted by Troy M. Pridgeon, RPSGT on June 22, 2001 at 23:50:15:In Reply to: Re: AASM accreditation download posted by Melinda on June 22, 2001 at 19:23:47:
Melinda,
The Standards for Accreditation document is 45 pages in length, so needless to say it takes a while to download. Basically, it divides the application into several parts and then lists certain areas with a scoring system that can either be Pass/Fail or 1-5 (one being best). Anything higher than a 3 is in bold indicating a proviso will be incured.
On the one hand, its a great tool to very specifically check your lab's relative areas of strength and weakness. On the other hand it is also likely to scare the hell out of you because scoring a 1 is often difficult at best and an exercise in academic purism at worst. For example, You can have great rooms. Large enough with temperature controls and sound/light attenuation. But if you don't have a shower in each one...you get a 3. They're not all that bad, in fact most make a lot of sense. But some are just, in my opinion, over the top.
Now I should note that I spoke with the AASM today, and they told me that the scoring system is not exactly as rigid as it sounds, which was heartening. In fact, current inspections leave the scoring largely to the site visitor. But in January there will be an effort to standardize the scoring into a more cosistent format. OF course, with my application (the old version) almost in the mail that may not mean much for another five years hence.
I'm sure part of it is my own frayed nerves after 9 months of fairly intense preparation. That and my natural inclination that anything less than a 1 is unacceptable, passing or not. But to suddenly find out that we could take a hit for using thermocouples instead of pressure transduces at this stage of the game is a little unsettling.
Please email me if you have any more specific questions about this, because I'm sure you could probably answer some of mine. Good luck to you.
p.s. don't bother trying to download the Standards for a Sleep Disordered Breathing Laboratory text... its 99.9% exactly the same thing.
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