نتایج جستجو برای: accreditation

تعداد نتایج: 6851  

Journal: :BMJ 2015
Narinder Kapur

“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...

2012
Hoo-Sun Chang Sun-Hee Lee

On July 23rd, 2010 a revised medical law (Article 58) was passed to change existing evaluation system of medical institutions to an accreditation system. The new healthcare accreditation system was introduced to encourage medical institutions to work voluntarily and continuously to improve patient safety and medical service quality. Changes regarding the healthcare accreditation system included...

Journal: :Frontiers in public health 2016
Beth E. Meyerson Jerry King Karen Comer Sandra S. Liu Laura Miller

UNLABELLED The identification and exploration of moderators of health department accreditation remain limited by current dichotomous conceptualizations of pursuit. METHODS A 2015 survey measured Indiana local health department (LHD) accreditation pursuit and progress, classifying respondents by progress evidence. Covariates included attitudes about the future impact of accreditation on fundin...

Journal: :iranian journal of public health 0
aa haghdoost research center for modeling in health, kerman university of medical sciences, kerman, iran. n momtazmanesh f shoghi m mohagheghi mh mehrolhassani

in order to improve the quality of education in universities of medical sciences (ums), and because of the key role of education development centers (edcs), an accreditation scheme was developed to evaluate their performance.a group of experts in the medical education field was selected based on pre-defined criteria by edc of ministry of health and medical education. the team, worked intensivel...

2016
Surendra Nath Rustgi

Diagnosis of cancer is usually a life‑changing experience for patients and their loved ones. As they seek treatment for their disease, cancer patients need to know that they are receiving safe and appropriate care. When the cancer patient receives radiation treatment at an accredited radiation oncology facility, he can rest assured that his treatment will be done at a facility that has met the ...

2017
Nesibe Akdemir Kiki M. J. M. H. Lombarts Emma Paternotte Bas Schreuder Fedde Scheele

BACKGROUND Evaluating the quality of postgraduate medical education (PGME) programs through accreditation is common practice worldwide. Accreditation is shaped by educational quality and quality management. An appropriate accreditation design is important, as it may drive improvements in training. Moreover, accreditors determine whether a PGME program passes the assessment, which may have major...

Journal: :Healthcare quarterly 2015
Shawna M McDonald Laura M Wagner Andrea Gruneir

OBJECTIVE To determine if accreditation is associated with better resident safety processes and outcomes in 587 Ontario long-term care (LTC) homes. A second area of interest is whether LTC home characteristics influence pursuit of accreditation. FINDINGS Out of five safety areas examined, accreditation was only associated with a lower occurrence of falls. Three of four organizational characte...

2013
Reece Hinchcliff David Greenfield Johanna I Westbrook Marjorie Pawsey Virginia Mumford Jeffrey Braithwaite

BACKGROUND Accreditation programs are complex, system-wide quality and safety interventions. Despite their international popularity, evidence of their effectiveness is weak and contradictory. This may be due to variable implementation in different contexts. However, there is limited research that informs implementation strategies. We aimed to advance knowledge in this area by identifying factor...

Journal: :International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care 2013
Shadi S Saleh Jihane Bou Sleiman Diana Dagher Hanaa Sbeit Nabil Natafgi

OBJECTIVE This study explores the views of Lebanese hospitals on the worthiness of accreditation vis-à-vis its associated expenses in addition to examining the type and source of financial investments incurred during the accreditation process. DESIGN Observational cross-sectional design. PARTICIPANTS All private short-stay hospitals registered with the Syndicate of Private Hospitals in Leba...

Journal: :Quality & safety in health care 2010
Jeffrey Braithwaite David Greenfield Johanna Westbrook Marjorie Pawsey Mary Westbrook Robert Gibberd Justine Naylor Sally Nathan Maureen Robinson Bill Runciman Margaret Jackson Joanne Travaglia Brian Johnston Desmond Yen Heather McDonald Lena Low Sally Redman Betty Johnson Angus Corbett Darlene Hennessy John Clark Judie Lancaster

BACKGROUND Despite the widespread use of accreditation in many countries, and prevailing beliefs that accreditation is associated with variables contributing to clinical care and organisational outcomes, little systematic research has been conducted to examine its validity as a predictor of healthcare performance. OBJECTIVE To determine whether accreditation performance is associated with sel...

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