External assessment of health care

Prevalence of Fear of Childbirth and Its Associated Factors in Primigravid Women: A Cross- Sectional Study

“…Therefore, in a woman who chooses cesarean delivery, the first step is to listen to her dialogues to determine her awareness of natural childbirth and cesarean-section, her information resources as well as her thoughts about her personal abilities and capabilities, and what have occurred in previous deliveries (1). Health workers must be sensitive to the fact that the information needs of all women are not the same, and their information plays a role in deciding about the mode of delivery (60).…”

A Pilot Comparative Study of the Clarity and Assessability of the Drug Management Standards of Accreditation Canada and the US Joint Commission

“…[10][11][12] Given the complexity of health care and its effect on health outcomes, the importance of renewing the accreditation of health care agencies periodically has been acknowledged. [13][14][15] In addition, most accreditation programs have migrated from an approach based on structures the US criteria could be paired with more than one Canadian criterion, and 12 of the Canadian criteria could be paired with more than one US criterion. †Because one of the US criteria appeared under more than one theme, the sum of the values in the column of US criteria is greater than 103, the actual total number of US criteria.…”

Conforming to accreditation in Iranian hospitals

“…These contributions are important for two reasons -the dearth of research considering the perception of participants to the control elements contained in accreditation programmes, despite the fact that accreditation is the longest-established and most widely-known method of evaluation of healthcare services in the world (e.g. WHO-World Health Organisation), 2003;Shaw, 2004b;Shaw, 2004c;Scrivens and Lodge, 1997 & many others) and given the scarcity of research related to accreditation programmes in developing countries (Hopper et al, 2008;Hoque, 2014).…”