Implementation guidelines for effective management of hospital accreditation.
The introduction of accreditation in the health sector assumes that the management of health care facilities is ready for such a task. The preparation of management should be helped by guidelines, which will make hospital managers familiar with individual steps of preparation for successful accreditation. Overall, they should help hospital management to avoid unnecessary mistakes and losses. This paper involves the development of a set of guidelines intended to help hospital management prepare for accreditation. The implementation guidelines were prepared according to a summary of suggestions taken from international literature and the pilot study of accreditation in Slovakia. The experience of countries with a long history of accreditation is utilised. These guidelines divide the preparatory phase into ten steps. (Fig. 2, ref. 13.)
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Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic, Health Care Department, Gundulicova 2, SK-812 72 Bratislava 1, Slovakia. bruchaco@minv.sk
D000068:Accreditation; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D018154:Slovakia