ArticleJournal of family & community medicine2012
The attitude of health care professionals towards accreditation: A systematic review of the literature.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Factors that influence the implementation of (inter)nationally endorsed health and social care standards: a systematic review and meta-summary.BMJ quality & safety · 2023Pooled it
- Hospital accreditation: an umbrella review.International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care · 2023Pooled it
- Impact of hospital accreditation on quality improvement in healthcare: A systematic review.PloS one · 2023Pooled it
- A systematic review of hospital accreditation: the challenges of measuring complex intervention effects.BMC health services research · 2015Pooled it
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- Stakeholders' Perception of the Palestinian Health Workforce Accreditation and Regulation System: A Focus on Conceptualization, Influencing Factors and Barriers, and the Way Forward.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Laboratory professionals' attitudes towards ISO 15189:2012 accreditation: an anonymous survey of three Croatian accredited medical laboratories.Biochemia medica · 2021Article
- Perception of Hospital Accreditation Impact among Quality Management Professionals in India: A Survey-Based Multicenter Study.Global journal on quality and safety in healthcare · 2021Article
- Private Providers' Experiences Implementing a Package of Interventions to Improve Quality of Care in Kenya: Findings From a Qualitative Evaluation.Global health, science and practice · 2020Article
- "All about the money?" A qualitative interview study examining organizational- and system-level characteristics that promote or hinder shared decision-making in cancer care in the United States.Implementation science : IS · 2020Article
- Challenges of implementing the accreditation model in military and university hospitals in Iran: a qualitative study.BMC health services research · 2020Article
- The development of hospital accreditation in low- and middle-income countries: a literature review.Health policy and planning · 2020Review
- Accreditation as a management tool: a national survey of hospital managers' perceptions and use of a mandatory accreditation program in Denmark.BMC health services research · 2020Article
- Short-notice (48 hours) ACCREDITATION trial in Australia: stakeholder perception of assessment thoroughness, resource requirements and workforce engagement.BMJ open quality · 2019Article
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Abstract
Accreditation is usually a voluntary program, in which authorized external peer reviewers evaluate the compliance of a health care organization with pre-established performance standards. The aim of this study was to systematically review the literature of the attitude of health care professionals towards professional accreditation. A systematic search of four databases including Medline, Embase, Healthstar, and Cinhal presented seventeen studies that had evaluated the attitudes of health care professionals towards accreditation. Health care professionals had a skeptical attitude towards accreditation. Owners of hospitals indicated that accreditation had the potential of being used as a marketing tool. Health care professionals viewed accreditation programs as bureaucratic and demanding. There was consistent concern, especially in developing countries, about the cost of accreditation programs and their impact on the quality of health care services.
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