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Similar to NCAC the COA objective is to promote standards, champion quality services for children, youth, and families, and advocate for the value of accreditation with a review process embedded in its accreditation process.
Participants held that health professionals' comprehension of the utility and value of accreditation modifies their engagement in programs.
The question arises as to how best to research the validity, impact and value of accreditation processes in health care.
As cost containment continues to be a concern in many hospitals, organisations need to evaluate the value of accreditation as a long-term investment.
The value of accreditation, therefore, remains largely under-investigated and this is a significant legitimacy problem for accreditation providers, policymakers and researchers.
While proof of the value of accreditation is so far indeterminate, there is also no conclusive evidence that no benefits arise or that resources are being wasted.
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While Home Office ministers point to other areas where Doncaster is ahead of the prison pack, its award does lead to questions about the value of accreditations such as the Charter Mark, ISO 9000, Hospitality Assured, Kitemarks, the British Excellence Model, the European Foundation for Quality Management and Investors in People.
These differences could provide evidence for the added value of the accreditation program.
This might explain why little added value of the accreditation program was detected for diabetes and COPD, two conditions for which many practices also participate in a bundled payment initiative.
The fact that we did not find stronger evidence for an added value of the accreditation program may be partially explained by other developments in the primary care field during our research period.
It is likely that a more general assessment of website quality (not restricted to information on a single medical condition as we have done here) would yield different results that may reflect the value of achieving independent accreditation.
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