- Title
- The impact of Saudi hospital accreditation on quality of care : a mixed methods study
- Creator
- Almasabi, Mohammed; Thomas, Shane
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/178231
- Identifier
- vital:15374
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.2373
- Identifier
- ISBN:0749-6753 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- In 2005, the Central Board for Accreditation of Healthcare Institutions (CBAHI) was launched in Saudi Arabia in order to improve the quality of care. By 2010, the first hospital was accredited by CBAHI, followed by many hospitals in following years. The aim of this study is to examine the impact of CBAHI on quality of care. In this study we used a mixed methods approach involving surveys, documentary analyses and semi-structure interviews. Surveys data were collected from 669 staff. Documentary analyses included mortality, infection and length of stay. The semi-structure interview data were gathered from 12 senior managers. Data were collected from three accredited public hospitals. Although some improvements in procedure were recognised, CBAHI does not monitor the continuity of health care delivery and had no effect on quality outcomes in our analysis. This study illustrates a need to sustain improvements over time in the accreditation cycle. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Relation
- International Journal of Health Planning and Management Vol. 32, no. 4 (2017), p. e261-e278
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subject
- 1117 Public Health and Health Services; 1605 Policy and Administration; Accreditation; Quality of care; Saudi Arabia
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