Hospital accreditation: the certainty of care with excellencehospital accreditationhealth servicequalityhospital administrationObjective: to search the history of hospital accreditation in Brazil; define the concept of hospital accreditation, analyze data on hospital accreditation. Methodology: this is a ...
Ensuring quality is a critical component of high-performing health systems. Having access to health care is not enough: patients who enter the health care system—whether a clinic, a hospital, or another venue—need to be confident that they will receive care that is safe, effective, and cons...
Accreditation has been considered as a strategy for assessing hospital performance and accordingly improving healthcare quality and safety.2-4 Hospital accreditation is an external evaluation of a hospital's structures, processes and results by an independent professional accreditation body using pre-...
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Quality accreditation - Consistent, collaborative, continuously improving. Healthcare specialty program certifications Validating excellence in hospital specialty care programs. Healthcare training and individual certification Relatable experts, relevant content! In-person and virtual options. Most courses can be...
The impact of accreditation on patient safety and quality of care indicators at King Abdulaziz University Hospital in Saudi Arabia . Res J Med Sci . 2011; 5 (1) :43-51.El Awa ,B., Habib, S., and El Deek, M. (2010):The Impact of Accreditation on Patient Safety and Quality of ...
Health care has never been more complicated or demanding of the people who work in the industry. This article describes two different but complimentary methods for improving the quality and safety of health care. Accreditation provides a foundation for creating systems of care across many types of ...
Hospital accreditation has been defined as "A self- assessment and external peer assessment process used by health care organisations to accurately assess their level of performance in relation to established standards and to implement ways to continuously improve". Critically, accreditation is not just...
Hospitals have been slow to adopt information technology (IT) largely because of a lack of generalizable evidence of the value associated with such adoption. To explore the relationship between IT adoption and quality of care in acute-care hospitals. Primary data on hospital IT adoption were combin...
BackgroundHospitals face increasing pressure to lower cost of care while improving quality of care. It is unclear if efforts to reduce hospital cost of