Danny Takanishi's Continuing Medical Education Committee members maintained and enhanced SSO accreditation status, improved annual meeting evaluations instruments, and helped pilot, with the Maintenance of Certification Committee, an MOC Part 2 activity.
Accreditation helped enhance communication and teamwork among staff (14%) and between staff and management (14%).
Koch et al. [ 32] suggest that patient data may be used to demonstrate accountability, feedback to individual practitioner, staff supervision, meet accreditation requirements, enhance staff morale, and support budget requests [ 32].
Moreover, the increase in staff involvement in accreditation helped enhance their professional development and awareness in quality issues and encouraged them to voice their opinions, which in turn might have helped improve quality results.
The results given by the model at an early phase of the visit could help surveyors in organising their on-site time more effectively and centre a valuable survey time on priority processes and systems, enhancing the value of accreditation to the hospital.
The selection criteria were based on the National Health Insurance Fund NHIFF) Accreditation Manual 16 for maternal health services at level 2 and enhanced with items from the SAFECARE manual.
Through illuminating the processes by which organisational performance can be improved via accreditation mechanisms, we would be in a position to observe how the safety and quality of health care can be enhanced.
For instance, Agboola and Elinwa (2013) suggested the need for a global accreditation model to enhance uniformity in TESs.
The final set can be used to provide feedback to settings or countries to reflect on their performance, for supporting quality improvement activities, accreditation, research, and enhancing transparency about quality.
Although relationship P1 has shown some positive impact on quality of care, the future reform of the accreditation system could consider enhancing the effectiveness for providing quality of care from a system flow perspective, and establish an adequate control between accreditation and hospital-level healthcare system.
