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Transforming Hospital Accreditation: From Assurance to Improvement

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Hospital accreditation has been around for more than a century and has become a fixture of hospital quality assurance. Although it has evolved over time, and in different countries, it still has many of the same characteristics as when it was introduced. The data available to monitor safety of hospital care has changed dramatically over that period. In this chapter we propose a transformation of hospital accreditation—from a system of assurance, to one which is focused on improvement; from one which is based on system-wide standards, to one which also focuses on the specific issues a hospital faces; from one where the external ‘surveyors’ are more like inspectors, to one where they are partners in improvement; and from one which does not use hospital-specific data and benchmarking, to one which does.

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Duckett, S., Jorm, C. (2019). Transforming Hospital Accreditation: From Assurance to Improvement. In: Burke, D., Godbole, P., Cash, A. (eds) Hospital Transformation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15448-6_5

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