BACKGROUND Iran developed a national hospital performance measurement program (HPMP) which has been implemented annually throughout its hospitals since 1997. However, little is known yet about its development and the impact of the program on hospital performance.This study aims to describe the development and process of implementation of the HPMP, and to explore the impact on hospital performan...

* Corresponding author. Chairman of the Accreditation Assessment Committee, Department of Cardiology, Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust at Charing Cross Hospital, Fulham Palace Road, London W6 8RF, UK. Tel.: C44 208 846 1917; fax: C44 208 746 8182. E-mail address: [email protected] (K.F. Fox). 1 The Accreditation Assessment Committee of the European Association of Echocardiography. 2 President...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Primary stroke center (PSC) certification was established to identify hospitals providing evidence-based care for stroke patients. The numbers of PSCs certified by Joint Commission (JC), Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program, Det Norske Veritas, and State-based agencies have significantly increased in the past decade. This study aimed to evaluate whether PSCs certif...

Background: Evaluation and accreditation of hospitals have essential roles in improving the quality, safety, and effectiveness of healthcare services. Nevertheless, this process may cause stress and anxiety among hospital staff. This study aims to determine and compare the level of anxiety and perceived stress of employees before and after the accreditation program in Ahvaz private hospitals. ...

Objective: To learn the perceptions of hospital quality managers about the benefits and difficulties that arise from accreditation. Methods: A descriptive, qualitative and exploratory study was developed with five quality managers from hospitals of each of the three levels of national accreditation and one which lost its accreditation. Taped interviews were carried out with the participants, wh...

Private accreditation of health care institutions serves crucial quality assurance functions in the American health care system. Since the advent of widespread third-party payment for health care services in the mid-twentieth century, third-party payers have used private accreditation to thereby identify which health care institutions are qualified to provide services for payment to their benef...

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