SynthesisInternational journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care2023
Hospital accreditation: an umbrella review.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Impact of joint commission international accreditation on occupational health and patient safety: A systematic review.PloS one · 2025Pooled it
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- Measuring uptake of the 2024 national standards for survivorship care: Insights from National Cancer Institute funded pilot projects.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2026Article
- Evaluating the Impact of Short-Notice Accreditation Assessment on Hospitals' Patient Safety and Quality Culture: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Contributions of accreditation organizations in health services to the accreditation process: a bibliometric analysis.Journal of health organization and management · 2026Article
- Financial venous stasis and thrombosis: A circulatory architecture for frozen capital and high-value care.Northern clinics of Istanbul · 2026Review
- Factors influencing the establishment of hospital accreditation programs in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review.Health policy and planning · 2025Article
- Flexible intensive care unit visitation: a valuable practice that requires contextual implementation.Critical care science · 2025Article
- How Professional and Market Logics and the Conflict between Institutional Demands Affect Hospital Accreditation Compliance: A Multiple-Case Study in Brazil.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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Abstract
Hospital accreditation is an established quality improvement intervention. Despite a growing body of research, the evidence of effect remains contested. This umbrella review synthesizes reviews that examine the impacts of hospital accreditation with regard to health-care quality, highlighting research trends and knowledge gaps. Terms specific to the population: 'hospital' and the intervention: 'accreditation' were used to search seven databases: CINAHL (via EBSCOhost), Embase, Medline (via EBSCOhost), PubMed, Scopus, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) EBP Database (via Ovid). 2545 references were exported to endnote. After completing a systematic screening process and chain-referencing, 33 reviews were included. Following quality assessment and data extraction, key findings were thematically grouped into the seven health-care quality dimensions. Hospital accreditation has a range of associations with health system and organizational outcomes. Effectiveness, efficiency, patient-centredness, and safety were the most researched quality dimensions. Access, equity, and timeliness were examined in only three reviews. Barriers to robust original studies were reported to have impeded conclusive evidence. The body of research was largely atheoretical, incapable of precisely explaining how or why hospital accreditation may actually influence quality improvement. The impact of hospital accreditation remains poorly understood. Future research should control for all possible variables. Research and accreditation program development should integrate concepts of implementation and behavioural science to investigate the mechanisms through which hospital accreditation may enable quality improvement.
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