Zambia's Hospital Accreditation Program Yields Important Lessons
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Quality Assurance Project
Operations Research Summary
2000
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Zambia’s recently developed hospital accreditation program is a major component of ongoing health sector reforms that have taken place in the country during the last decade. Although Zambia previously had several processes in place for evaluating hospital performance, comprehensive performance standards had not been developed and quality measurement was not standardized. Zambia’s hospital accreditation program has focused on developing realistic standards, educating hospitals on their performance vis-à-vis these standards, and making decisions on whether hospitals have achieved accreditation status. The accreditation program has been lauded as an improvement over punitive hospital inspection policies. [author’s description]
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