Hospital accreditation: an umbrella review.

Katherine LewisReece Hinchcliff

Published in: International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care (2023)

The impact of hospital accreditation remains poorly understood. Future research should control for all possible variables. Research and accreditation program development should integrate concepts of implementation and behavioural science to investigate the mechanisms through which hospital accreditation may enable quality improvement.

Keyphrases

quality improvement
patient safety
healthcare
acute care
adverse drug
public health
primary care
emergency department
current status