Hospital accreditation: Lessons from low- and middle-income countries

Globalization and Health

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Smits, Helen ^a   Supachutikul, Anuwat ^b   Mate, Kedar S ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT   (United States)

^b The Healthcare Accreditation Institute   (Thailand)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Innovation in accreditation; Low and middle income countries; Quality improvement

Indexed keywords

CERTIFICATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL SECTOR; QUALITY CONTROL;

ACCREDITATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

ACCREDITATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

EID: 84908146556     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17448603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12992-014-0065-9     Document Type: Article

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