title: Quality Implementation in Health Physics Unit, Cosenza Hospital. Accreditation Program as Quality Improvement instrument.
abstract: Achieving high levels of quality in healthcare, which could be measurable, is increasingly important at present and is dictated by the radical changes of the welfare system imposed today by the well known economic constraints. However, even in the ongoing legislation, the practices concerning the verification and review of the quality of health care has had a major impact in the galaxy of Health. On the one hand, the citizen is developing an awareness of the possibilities of choice (Empowerment) between a plurality of providers of healthcare services, on the other hand providers themselves are obliged, within the logic of a global market, to retrain their offers to respond satisfactorily to the needs of citizens. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate how the adoption of Operational Procedures, following the granting of a certificate of accreditation to the Unit of Medical Physics, has changed the approach to the work on the part of health workers, in the direction of a dynamic quality improvement.
authors.affiliation: MD, Head of the Quality, Accreditation, Research and Innovation Unit, Cosenza Hospital, Italy.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Loizzo
authors.affiliation: PhD, Head of Medical Physics Unit, Cosenza Hospital, Italy.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Siciliano
mesh_terms: D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008485:Medical Audit; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012802:Sicily; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000592:standards*
keywords: Accreditation Path; Health Physic Unit; Quality