INTRODUCTION To determine if an established programme is achieving desired goals and objectives, in other words being effective, health-care policy makers need to recognise and cope with its challenges. This paper made an effort to pinpoint the main difficulties which appear on the way to successful implementation of the Iranian hospital accreditation programme, from perspective of hospitals me...

Puskesmas as a first-level health facility must improve the quality of services to maximum so that accreditation status increases and public trust carry out also increases. One important indicators in improving at is patient safety. However, Indonesia, development issues regarding safety level not dynamic hospital level. This study aims dig deeper synthesize scientific literature on its relatio...

OBJECTIVES The study aims are twofold. First, to investigate the suitability of hand hygiene as an indicator of accreditation outcomes and, second, to test the hypothesis that hospitals with better accreditation outcomes achieve higher hand hygiene compliance rates. DESIGN A retrospective, longitudinal, multisite comparative survey. SETTING Acute public hospitals in New South Wales, Austral...

BACKGROUND We aimed to verify the issue of the ethics audit and its use in the system of accreditation of hospitals. It presents the results of a survey conducted among hospital managers from Romania. METHODS Our article highlights the results of the second part of a research carried out in 2012 on the pertinence and the structure of the ethics audit integrated within the accreditation proces...

There are several studies showing international hospital accreditation does have some impact on clinical standards and even bed occupancy rates. However, little is known about the attracting more medical tourists to hospitals that received this distinction. It was expected, prior study, participating in might increase operational expenses greater amounts of patients would also boost patient vol...

BACKGROUND Resource consumption is a widely used proxy for severity of illness, and is often measured through a case-mix index (CMI) based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs), which is commonly linked to payment. For countries that do not have DRGs it has been suggested to use CMIs derived from International Classification of Diseases (ICD). Our research objective was to use ICD-derived case-mix...