Developing hospital accreditation standards in Uganda
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Date
2016
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The International journal of health planning and management
Abstract
Whereas accreditation is widely used as a tool to improve quality of healthcare
in the developed world, it is a concept not well adapted in most developing countries for a host
of reasons, including insufficient incentives, insufficient training and a shortage of human and
material resources. The purpose of this paper is to describe refining use and outcomes of a
self-assessment hospital accreditation tool developed for a resource-limited context.
Methods We invited 60 stakeholders to review a set of standards (from which a selfassessment
tool was developed), and subsequently refined them to include 485 standards in
7 domains. We then invited 60 hospitals to test them. A study team traveled to each of the
40 hospitals that agreed to participate providing training and debrief the self-assessment.
The study was completed in 8 weeks
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Keywords
accreditation, hospitals, standards, Africa, Uganda
Citation
Galukande, M., Katamba, A., Nakasujja, N., Baingana, R., Bateganya, M., Hagopian, A., ... & Luboga, S. (2016). Developing hospital accreditation standards in Uganda. The International journal of health planning and management, 31(3), e204-e218.DOI: 10.1002/hpm.2317