Accreditation is usually a voluntary program, in which authorized external peer reviewers evaluate the compliance of a health care organization with pre-established performance standards. The aim of this study was to systematically review the literature of the attitude of health care professionals towards professional accreditation. A systematic search of four databases including Medline, Embas...

Background Patient satisfaction is one of the vital attributes to consider when evaluating the impact of accreditation systems. This study aimed to explore the impact of the national accreditation system in Lebanon on patient satisfaction.   Methods An explanatory cross-sectional study of six hospitals in Lebanon. Patient satisfaction was measured using the SERVQUAL tool assessing five dimensio...

background in recent years, accreditation of private hospitals followed by decentralisation of the italian national health service (nhs) into 21 regional health systems has provided a good empirical ground for investigating the tiebout principle of “voting with their feet”. we examine the infra-regional trade-off between greater patient choice (due to an increase in hospital services supply) an...

BACKGROUND Aging is an inevitable part of life. One can maintain well-being and wellness even after discharge and/or transition if his or her functional decline is minimized, sudden decline is prevented, and functioning is promoted during hospitalization. Caring appropriately for elderly patients requires the systematic application of Senior-Friendly Hospital principles to all operating systems...

BACKGROUND The increased international focus on improving patient outcomes, safety and quality of care has led stakeholders, policy makers and healthcare provider organizations to adopt standardized processes for evaluating healthcare organizations. Accreditation and certification have been proposed as interventions to support patient safety and high quality healthcare. Guidelines recommend acc...

The Accreditation Committee of the Joint Commission’s Board of Commissioners approved a revision to the “Inclusion of Physician Practices in Survey” policy in “The Accreditation Process (ACC)” chapter of the comprehensive accreditation manuals for hospitals and critical access hospitals. Previously, Joint Commission policy required that a physician practice be included in the hospital’s survey ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to determine accreditation surveyors' and hospitals' use and perceived usefulness of clinical indicator reports and the potential to establish the control relationship between the accreditation and reporting systems. The control relationship refers to instructional directives, arising from appropriately designed methods and efforts towards using clinical indic...

1 Institute for Technical Cooperation in Health, Potomac, Maryland, United States of America. Send correspondence to: Humberto M. Novaes, INTECH, Inc., 12 Pasture Brook Court, Potomac, Maryland 20854-2954, United States of America; telephone: (301) 610-9620; fax: (301) 610-9621; e-mail: [email protected] 2 Case Western Reserve University, Medical School, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America...