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Measuring Quality of Healthcare Across Borders: The Role of International Healthcare Accreditation in Medical Travel
Published in Frederick J. DeMicco, Ali A. Poorani, Medical Travel Brand Management, 2023
Elizabeth Ziemba, Claudia Mika
Accreditation is an important part of the process of improving healthcare services to patients around the world. It can raise the standard of care provided to patients in every corner of the world. The Temos team already serves accredited partners on five continents and is ready to do its part to improve access to affordable quality healthcare services for all patients worldwide.
Current trends in sexual assault medical forensic exams and examiners
Published in Rachel E. Lovell, Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling, Sexual Assault Kits and Reforming the Response to Rape, 2023
Julie L. Valentine, Nancy R. Downing
As SANE programs continue to expand, the International Association of Forensic Nurses is working toward the development of a voluntary SANE program accreditation program as a way to verify that high-quality, evidence-based care is being provided. Accreditation can demonstrate SANE programs meet pre-established practice standards. Benefits of accreditation include having expert program review and guidance on improving practices, increased community and patient confidence in the quality and safety of care, enhanced ability to recruit staff, improved risk management, and support for the framework development needed to achieve and maintain high-quality programs (Joint Commission, 2021).
Cost effectiveness in interprofessional education
Published in Kieran Walsh, Liam Donaldson, Cost Effectiveness in Medical Education, 2021
Debra Nestel, Brett Williams, Elmer Villanueva
Finally, there is the issue of IPE timing. Most professional licensing and registration bodies acknowledge that understanding the roles of different professional groups with whom the clinician works is important. Therefore, it is fairly safe to assume that IPE will begin in undergraduate education, but at what point and for how long? The extent to which professional associations are committed to IPE as part of their registration or revalidation varies. There will be costs for educational institutions in meeting accreditation or similar processes of professional associations.
Developing hospital accreditation standards: Applying fuzzy DEMATEL
Published in International Journal of Healthcare Management, 2021
Ladan Ghadami, Iravan Masoudi Asl, Somayeh Hessam, Mahmoud Modiri
The healthcare system needs to assess and demonstrate existing quality for which a measurement system is essential [1]. In 1985, the World Health Organization (WHO) urged every member state to develop effective mechanisms for ensuring the quality of patient care in their healthcare systems by 1990 [2]. In 2003, WHO introduced accreditation as a supportive and comprehensive model to measure hospital performance [3]. Accreditation is a systemic evaluation of healthcare centres, benefiting from the opinions of a group of experts in a specialized area to evaluate a healthcare organization and make decisions about granting their qualifications [4,5]. The existing challenge is to strike a balance between the roles of health specialists, governmental policymakers, the public, and other stakeholders in promoting the quality of healthcare services and developing relevant standards [6]. WHO has mentioned some challenges for hospital accreditation in the Eastern Mediterranean, such as inapplicability of standards for all hospitals, uncertainty about a precise numerical hospital score [7].
Implementation of healthcare accreditation in Danish general practice: a questionnaire study exploring general practitioners’ perspectives on external support
Published in Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2021
Maria Luisa Overgaard Jensen, Flemming Bro, Anna Mygind
Accreditation can be defined as a procedure in which a recognised external institution evaluates an organisation based on a predefined set of quality standards [1]. Accreditation has long been used in the healthcare sector. One of the first examples was seen at a United States hospital in 1919 [1]. Since then, accreditation has been used extensively in the secondary healthcare sector [1–3]. It was not until the early 1990s that the first accreditation programme for general practice was introduced in Australia [2]. Thereafter, several countries introduced accreditation in general practice, including Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. In 2010, the Organisation of General Practitioners in Denmark and the Danish Regions decided that all Danish general practice clinics should undergo mandatory accreditation, and this was scheduled to occur from January 2016 to December 2018 [4].
Towards promoting patient safety practices: Baseline assessment of patient safety culture in three private hospitals
Published in International Journal of Healthcare Management, 2020
Hanan E. Badr, Talal AlFadalah, Fadi El-Jardali
The study found an average level of overall patient safety culture in the studied hospitals although all three hospitals were accredited ones. This raises an important point about the accreditation process and the length of time that hospitals should be accredited. Considering policy of re-accreditation might be a necessary approach to keeping hospitals racing high level of performance all the time. Changing workers’ perception and maintaining it towards better patient safety culture is not an easy or at end process that terminates by pursuing accreditation. It necessitates continuous enhancement, training, and evaluation, should sustainability of better patient safety culture is the goal of healthcare providers, administrators and policymakers. Promoting patient health in the hospitals dictates professional level of healthcare from the providers which will never be pertained without proving high patient safety culture in the hospitals [22].