BACKGROUND Nowadays, restriction on access and optimum use of resources is the main challenge of development in all organizations. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the technical efficiency and its factors, influencing hospitals of Tehran. METHODS This research was a descriptive-analytical and retrospective study conducted in 2014-2015. Fifty two hospitals with public, private...

BACKGROUND Given the trend toward eliminating reimbursement for "never events," hospital administrators are challenged to implement practices designed to prevent their occurrence. Little evidence exists, however, that patient safety practices, as evaluated using accreditation criteria, are related to the achievement of patient safety outcomes. PURPOSE The aim of this study was to examine the ...

“We tend to default too quickly to top-down rather than peer review as the best way of improving standards,” the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, is reported as saying of the NHS. Accreditation is a well established form of external peer review that takes place in education. In healthcare, however, it is patchy, and some clinical services have none. Although accreditation is not a panacea for fai...

Background: Hospital accreditation is a systematic external evaluation of a hospital’s structures, processes and results by an independent professional accreditation body using pre-established optimum standards. This study aimed to evaluate the hospital accreditation system. Methods: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out between November 2015 and February 2016 using a ques...

External assessment is increasingly used worldwide to regulate, improve and market health care providers, especially hospitals. The commonest models are peer review, accreditation, statutory inspection, ISO certification and evaluation (usually internal) against the 'business excellence' framework. Each of these is progressively adapting to meet the changing demands of public accountability, cl...

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations was founded in 1951 as a private, not-for-profit organization that evaluates and accredits hospitals and other healthcare organizations. In 1987, the JCAHO launched its Agenda for Change to create a more modern and sophisticated accreditation process to place primary emphasis on actual performance. Coincident with this new emphas...

The implementation of quality management systems (QMSs) is a world-wide phenomenon, particularly in organisations in developing countries. which have used different QMSs to improve the quality of their goods and services. loint Commission International (lCI) is an international body issuing healthcare standards following the principles of Total Quality Management to improve quality and patient ...

Abstract Background Quality improvement (QI) initiatives such as accreditation, public reporting, inspection and pay-for-performance are increasingly being implemented globally. In Flanders, Belgium, a government policy for acute-care hospitals incorporates aforementioned initiatives. Currently, questions raised on the sustainability of present policy. Objective First, to summarise various have...