“…The relationship between accreditation program and quality measures were examined in 21 articles CASTLE, 2012a;CHABANNON et al, 2012;CASTLE, 2013;BRODRIBB;KRUSKE;MILLER, 2013;PEACOCK et al, 2013;PRONOVOST et al, 2013;RAJAMANI et al, 2013;KWON et al, 2013;NOUWENS et al, 2014;PARTHASARATHY;SUBRAMANIAN;QUAN, 2014;SONG;LI;ZHOU, 2014;TOWERS;CLARK, 2014; VAN DOORN -KLOMBERG et al, 2014;GRATWOHL et al, 2014;MERKOW et al, 2014;MORTON;GARG;NGUYEN, 2014;MUMFORD et al, 2014;BOGH et al, 2015;TELEM et al, 2015;FALSTIE-JENSEN et al, 2015;LIU et al, 2015). Following prior research, two key subthemes were explored in these studies, including indicators of organizational performance rates, along with patient or healthcare consumer outcomes.…”