Improvement in quality of hospital care during accreditation: A nationwide stepped-wedge study

Bogh, Søren Bie; Falstie-Jensen, Anne Mette; Hollnagel, Erik; Holst, René; Braithwaite, Jeffrey

doi:10.1093/intqhc/mzw099

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“…Standardization in the form of policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, and pathway packages is a popular quality-improvement strategy among health care leaders, and one way of promoting standardization is through accreditation (Bogh et al, 2016). Accreditation means, according to Merriam-Webster (merriam-webster.com), 'to give official authorization to or approval of', 'to provide with credentials', 'to recognize or vouch for as conforming to a standard'.…”

Section: Quality Development and Accreditationmentioning

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“…Research on the Danish accreditation experience show that the introduction of the accreditation system has led to improved patient care (Bogh et al, 2016) and that high compliance with accreditation standards is associated with a higher level of evidence-based hospital care (Falstie-Jensen et al, 2017). The reason why accreditation has been partially discontinued in 2015 is, according to Engel and Andersen (2017), that the accreditation program over time has led to overimplementation and bureaucracy.…”

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Quality Development in Health Care: Participation vs. Accreditation

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2018

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2018

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“…Los procesos de clasificación empresarial buscan relaciones asociativas entre el desempeño organizacional y los modelos de negocios (Lambert y Davidson, 2013), lo cual lo ha convertido en un área emergente de investigación dentro de la minería de datos, resultando así en el desarrollo de un gran número de algoritmos de clasificación. Existen muchas alternativas para enfrentar un problema de clasificación empresarial, sin embargo, se puede evidenciar en los planteamientos de diferentes autores Ren et al (2017) y los resultados presentados en anteriores investigaciones (Ansari y Riasi, 2016;Bogh et al, 2016;Hinkelmann et al, 2016) los beneficios de caracterizar un sector empresarial para generar información objetiva como herramienta de mejoramiento, evaluación y control. Diferentes investigaciones han estudiado el tema de clasificación empresarial de empresas exportadoras.…”

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Creación de Perfiles Empresariales para Compañías Exportadoras mediante Aprendizaje No Supervisado

2019

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Autor a quien debe ser dirigida la correspondencia. ResumenEn esta investigación se presenta un método para la creación de perfiles empresariales de compañías exportadoras en la ciudad de Barranquilla, en Colombia. El método esta soportado por el desarrollo de las técnicas de aprendizaje no supervisado de datos, Análisis de Componentes Principales y análisis de Clúster. La base de datos utilizada corresponde a información financiera primaria de 107 empresas registradas en la Cámara de Comercio de Barranquilla. En primer lugar, se presenta una revisión del contexto de las exportaciones global y local. Seguidamente, el análisis de componentes principales permitió la creación de nuevas variables no correlacionadas y la visualización conjunta de variables y empresas en un espacio de dos dimensiones. Posteriormente, en el análisis de clúster se interpretaron los patrones de agrupación de las empresas según los rubros financieros estudiados. El trabajo muestra que la metodología empleada permite identificar el tipo de servicio que requieren las empresas para lograr mejores niveles de desempeño, lo que facilita la implementación de planes de desarrollo y de políticas públicas y privadas de fomento empresarial Palabras clave: aprendizaje no supervisado; componentes principales; empresas exportadoras; inteligencia de negocios; competitividad AbstractThis research presents a method for the creation of business profiles of export companies in the city of Barranquilla -Colombia. The method is supported by the development of unsupervised data learning techniques, Principal Component Analysis and Cluster analysis. The database used corresponds to primary financial information of 107 companies registered in the Chamber of Commerce of Barranquilla. First, a review of the context of global and local exports is presented. Next, the analysis of components allowed the creation of new uncorrelated variables and the joint visualization of variables in a two-dimensional space. Subsequently, the cluster analysis of the companies was interpreted in the cluster analysis according to the financial items studied. The work shows that the methodology employed allows identifying the type of service that an enterprise needs to achieve the best levels of performance, which in turns facilitates the implementation of development plans and of public and private policies of business promotion.

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“…In addition, the quality of health services and hospitals is also very important for many stakeholders, including governments, nongovernmental organizations providing health care and social welfare, and patient-centered organizations (2). Therefore, countries are using different approaches to ensure the quality and improvement of health care standards, and accreditation is one of the most effective mechanisms used to evaluate the performance and to improve the safety and quality of health services (3), to the extent that within the past 50 years, hospital accreditation has been one of the most widely used strategies to improve the quality and functioning of health care systems in more than 70 countries (4).…”

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Hospital Accreditation: A solution for developing countries challenges or a challenge for the hospitals?

Bordbar

Manesh

Kavosi

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Background Inasmuch as accreditation is of great significance for hospitals, this study aimed to explain the accreditation challenges of Iranian hospitals through a content analysis approach. Methods A qualitative study was run through the content analysis method in 2018. 19 semi-structured interviews were conducted with experts and data were saturated in this level. To increase the accuracy and precision of the study, Guba and Lincoln’s four criteria including credibility, dependability, conformability and transferability were used. MAX QDA10 was used for data analysis via 5-step framework analysis approach. Results The findings of the interview analysis led to the identification of 5 main themes and 29 subthemes. The main themes included macro problems and policy making, evaluators' problems, structural and process problems, executive problems, and problems with the accreditation measures. Conclusion The results shed light on the fact that Iranian hospitals need to experience major changes in applying accreditation as a quality assurance mechanism. In other words, it seems necessary for policy makers affiliated with Ministry of Health and Medical education to revise accreditation measures according to hospital needs and try to clarify the structure and executive process of the accreditation. Moreover, improving and standardizing the evaluators` skills is recommended.

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Improvement in quality of hospital care during accreditation: A nationwide stepped-wedge study

Abstract: These findings support the hypothesis that hospital accreditation leads to improvements in patient care.

Cited by 41 publications

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Quality Development in Health Care: Participation vs. Accreditation

Quality Development in Health Care: Participation vs. Accreditation

Creación de Perfiles Empresariales para Compañías Exportadoras mediante Aprendizaje No Supervisado

Hospital Accreditation: A solution for developing countries challenges or a challenge for the hospitals?

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