State Health Agencies' Perceptions of the Benefits of Accreditation
| Autor: | Alannah Kittle, Rivka Liss-Levinson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Quality management media_common.quotation_subject education MEDLINE 01 natural sciences Accreditation 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine health services administration Surveys and Questionnaires Agency (sociology) medicine Humans Quality (business) 030212 general & internal medicine 0101 mathematics IBM health care economics and organizations media_common business.industry Health Policy Public health 010102 general mathematics Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Public relations Quality Improvement Workforce Perception Business Public Health geographic locations State Government |
| Zdroj: | Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP. 24 |
| ISSN: | 1550-5022 |
| Popis: | The national voluntary accreditation program serves to encourage health agencies to seek departmental accreditation as a mechanism for continuous quality improvement. This study utilizes data from the 2016 Association of State and Territorial Health Officials Profile Survey to examine the perceived benefits of accreditation among state health agencies. Respondents answered questions on topics such as agency structure, workforce, and quality improvement activities. Frequencies and cross tabulations were conducted using IBM SPSS (version 21) statistical software. Results indicate that among accredited agencies, the most commonly endorsed benefits of accreditation include stimulating quality and performance improvement opportunities (95%), strengthening the culture of quality improvement (90%), and stimulating greater collaboration across departments/units within the agency (90%). Policy and practice implications, such as how these data can be used to promote accreditation within health agencies, as well as how accreditation strengthens governmental public health systems, are also discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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