The Value of a Systemic Accreditation Path

Abstract

Undertaking a path for accreditation or certification has an important value based on the presence of a third party who supervises the commitments and indicators of the model and assures stakeholders, especially patients, by adopting a system that embraces all the national and international security standards. It uses best practices and international guidelines to create the most appropriate patient route such as standardising the structure and the way of working in hospitals, in order to ensure that institutions, according to the highest ideals, carry out their work properly before the professional community, and that institutions with lower standards are encouraged to improve the quality of their work. In this way, patients receive the best treatment and tools are available for people to recognize those institutions that are inspired by the highest ideals in medicine.