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Inspection readiness, United States

Joint Commission survey readiness quiz

This Joint Commission readiness check is 12 questions drawn from the Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Ambulatory Care and its National Patient Safety Goals. Answer each one and you get a score for each area, the three things to fix first, and the Joint Commission guide and template for each. wai is clinic software built to help you achieve accreditation.

Updated , and every standard links to jointcommission.org.

The 12 questions

  1. National Patient Safety GoalsAre at least two patient identifiers used on every record, label and specimen?

    Drawn from NPSG.01.01.01, Joint Commission

  2. National Patient Safety GoalsIs a medication list taken at the start of each episode and given to the patient at the end?

    Drawn from NPSG.03.06.01, Joint Commission

  3. National Patient Safety GoalsIf you prescribe anticoagulants, is monitoring in place and recorded?

    Drawn from NPSG.03.05.01, Joint Commission

  4. National Patient Safety GoalsIs hand hygiene monitored against CDC or WHO guidance?

    Drawn from NPSG.07.01.01, Joint Commission

  5. National Patient Safety GoalsIs there a named leader and an action plan for health outcomes for all of your patients?

    Drawn from NPSG.16.01.01, Joint Commission

  6. Universal ProtocolAre preprocedure verification, site marking and a time-out done for every invasive procedure?

    Drawn from UP.01.01.01, UP.01.02.01 and UP.01.03.01, Joint Commission

  7. Record of Care, Treatment, and ServicesAre notes signed and complete for every visit in the last month?

    Drawn from Record of Care, Treatment, and Services (RC), Joint Commission

  8. Record of Care, Treatment, and ServicesAre diagnostic tests followed from the order to the patient, with a named owner?

    Drawn from Record of Care, Treatment, and Services (RC), Joint Commission

  9. Human ResourcesDo credentials files hold current licences, training and the privileges your governing body granted?

    Drawn from Human Resources (HR), Joint Commission

  10. Human ResourcesDoes every person have their own named account in every clinical system?

    Drawn from Information Management (IM), Joint Commission

  11. The surveyCould you hand surveyors 12 months of performance improvement and infection surveillance data today?

    Drawn from Survey Activity Guide, Joint Commission

  12. The surveyDo you know how you would submit Evidence of Standards Compliance within 60 days of a finding?

    Drawn from Evidence of Standards Compliance, Joint Commission

Email me the full report

Answer every question above and we will email your score for each area, the three things to fix first and the guide for each.

The score for each area, the three things to fix first and the guide and template for each, in your inbox.

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What the questions are drawn from

Each area below is Joint Commission's own, with the page where Joint Commission publishes it. The Joint Commission hub explains the whole framework, and its guides carry the templates.

  1. 5 questionsNational Patient Safety Goalsjointcommission.org
  2. 1 questionUniversal Protocoljointcommission.org
  3. 2 questionsRecord of Care, Treatment, and Servicesjointcommission.org
  4. 2 questionsHuman Resourcesjointcommission.org
  5. 2 questionsThe surveyjointcommission.org
  6. Joint Commission hubJoint Commission software, the framework and every guide

Questions

Where do the Joint Commission questions come from?

Each question is drawn from the Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Ambulatory Care and its National Patient Safety Goals, and names the standard it comes from with a link to the regulator's own page. The facts were checked against jointcommission.org on 15 October 2026.

Does the score predict my Joint Commission accreditation decision?

No. The score shows where your evidence is strong and where it is thin, area by area, so you know what to work on first. Joint Commission decides the accreditation decision after its own assessment.

Does Joint Commission endorse this quiz or wai?

Joint Commission registers and rates providers. It does not approve, certify or endorse software, wai included, and software cannot earn an accreditation decision on a provider's behalf. wai keeps the records your team uses to show Joint Commission how care is delivered, and Joint Commission decides the accreditation decision.

What happens to my answers?

Your answers are scored in your browser and stay there. They are sent to us only if you ask for the full report by email, and then only to write and send it.

See your Joint Commission evidence kept as the work is done.

We show wai on your own diary, notes and inbox in a 15 minute video call. wai is built to help you achieve accreditation, and Joint Commission decides the accreditation decision.

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Other regulators

Every readiness quiz
  1. EnglandCQC readiness quiz
  2. Dubai, United Arab EmiratesDHA readiness quiz
  3. SingaporeHCSA readiness quiz
  4. Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesDOH readiness quiz
  5. Hong KongORPHF readiness quiz
  6. International, with the Gulf and Asia firstJCI readiness quiz
  7. United StatesAAAHC readiness quiz
  8. AustraliaNSQHS and RACGP readiness quiz
  9. ScotlandHIS readiness quiz
  10. WalesHIW readiness quiz
  11. Northern IrelandRQIA readiness quiz
  12. QatarMOPH readiness quiz
  13. KuwaitKuwait MOH readiness quiz
  14. Kingdom of BahrainNHRA readiness quiz
  15. Sultanate of OmanOman MOH readiness quiz
  16. FranceHAS readiness quiz
  17. IrelandHIQA readiness quiz
  18. Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec, CanadaCanada readiness quiz
  19. Aotearoa New ZealandNgā Paerewa readiness quiz
  20. Zurich and Geneva, SwitzerlandSwiss cantonal licensing readiness quiz
  21. IndiaNABH readiness quiz
  22. MalaysiaMOH and MSQH readiness quiz
  23. GermanyQM-RL readiness quiz
  24. Madrid and Cataluña, SpainSpanish autorización sanitaria readiness quiz
  25. the NetherlandsIGJ readiness quiz
  26. South AfricaHPCSA and OHSC readiness quiz
  27. EgyptGAHAR readiness quiz
  28. JapanMHLW readiness quiz
  29. South KoreaKOIHA readiness quiz
  30. Brazil, worked through São Paulo and Rio de JaneiroANVISA, CFM and ONA readiness quiz

Sources

  1. 1Joint Commission, 2026Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Ambulatory Care, effective January 1, 2026, sample pagesRead source
  2. 2Joint Commission, 2026National Patient Safety Goals, effective January 2026, Ambulatory Health Care ProgramRead source
  3. 3Joint Commission, 2026Ambulatory Care Accreditation Organization Survey Activity Guide, September 2026Read source
  4. 4Joint Commission, 2026What is Evidence of Standards Compliance?Read source