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Regulation, Accreditation, and the Compliance Function
Published in Steven A. Wartman, Confluence of Policy and Leadership in Academic Health Science Centers, 2022
Cynthia E. Boyd, Larry J. Goodman
Hospital accreditation has shifted away from onsite visits, interviews, standard adherence check-ups, and reviews of sentinel event root cause analysis summaries to the use of core measures including: risk adjusted outcomes, failure mode effect analyses, and other approaches to measuring processes and outcomes.
The fundamentals of health care education
Published in Joseph A. Balogun, Health Care Education in Nigeria, 2020
Because of the global desire for safe and sound quality health care, there is a growing interest in international accreditation of hospitals and health care facilities. International accreditation of a hospital confers a stamp of approval of quality health care delivery. Thus, discerning patients intentionally seek out hospitals with international accreditation because of their dedication to quality, patient-centered care, innovative health care practices, and safety. Examples of reputable international hospital and health care facilities accreditation organizations are the AABB Hospital Accreditation (2020), International Healthcare Accreditation (2020), Joint Commission International (2020), Global Healthcare Accreditation (2020) and Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (2020).
The Range of Treatment and Rehabilitation Programs; Factors in the Selection of an Appropriate Program
Published in Frank Lynn Iber, Alcohol and Drug Abuse as Encountered in Office Practice, 2020
Such units are often an outgrowth of community need, but frequently do not have the range of services required for treatment. Hospital accreditation processes do not evaluate the program or its outcome but only the presence of a variety of professional inputs and safety features. In general these units have less variety of staffing and less variability in programs available to the patient than do the specialized hospitals. However, they are community based, and aftercare is more readily arranged, although some hospitals may provide it only through private physicians. Further, they offer flexibility in duration of hospitalization that allows some goals to be met during inpatient status without the need to spend a stereotyped period of time in the unit. I would generally rate such programs in a general hospital as less effective on average than programs in specialized hospitals. Smaller programs offer fewer services and a more limited variety of rehabilitation experiences. All programs now mix alcoholics and other addictions, which is no substantial problem. Mixing adolescents and older adults and patients of substantially different socioeconomic conditions poses a greater problem in rehabilitation. The larger hospitals specializing in addiction recovery can usually devote groups to specific ages and specific backgrounds.
How is family involved in clinical care and decision-making in intensive care units? A qualitative study
Published in Contemporary Nurse, 2020
Hasanali Jafarpoor, Parvaneh Vasli, Houman Manoochehri
Another valuable aspect of this study is related to evaluation and accreditation systems in Iran’s hospitals. In recent years, the Ministry of Health and Medical Education has formulated a comprehensive guideline on national hospital accreditation and has thus accredited hospitals on the same basis. In its latest edition, some measures have been also mentioned to review FCC including informing patients and families about patients’ health status and care process, engaging patients and families in treatment decisions in a constant and active manner, obtaining informed consent, providing preparedness and empowerment for patient discharge, enabling patients to communicate and to visit family members in accordance with established safety standards and regulations (Treatmet Deputy of Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran, 2020). This study has somehow investigated the implementation of some aspects of high-quality care based on national standards.
Hospital accreditation: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Published in International Journal of Healthcare Management, 2021
Hospital accreditation is an external evaluation of a hospital's structures, processes, and results by an independent professional accreditation body using pre-established optimum standards [5]. An accreditation certificate acknowledges a hospital's adherence to optimal standards and assures that the hospital provides high quality, safe, and effective services. An accreditation program focuses on the achievement of optimal quality and safety standards and is different from licensing and certification initiatives that focus on meeting a minimum set of essential predetermined standards.
Developing hospital accreditation standards: Applying fuzzy DEMATEL
Published in International Journal of Healthcare Management, 2021
Ladan Ghadami, Iravan Masoudi Asl, Somayeh Hessam, Mahmoud Modiri
Categorizing and weighting based on the model presented in the project, which was based on experts’ opinions, showed that most standards relevant to management and leadership axes of executive management and the main body of decision-making in hospitals can be effective and improve the recoverable and weak points in hospitals; therefore, hospitals can be a source of positive change by taking effective measures and paying special attention to the main body of hospital management. Hospital accreditation is a good tool for improving the quality of care [25].