Impacts of accreditation on the performance of primary health care centres: A systematic review
Introduction: Evidence on the impacts of accreditation on primary health care (PHC) services is inconsistent. Thus, this study aimed to assess the impacts of accreditation on the performance of PHC centres. Methods: This study systematically reviewed articles published from 2000 to 2019 in the Web...
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| author | Jafar Sadegh Tabrizi Atefeh As’habi Maryam Nazari Masoumeh Ebrahimi Tavani Mehdi Haghi Farid Gharibi |
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| description | Introduction: Evidence on the impacts of accreditation on primary health care (PHC) services is inconsistent. Thus, this study aimed to assess the impacts of accreditation on the performance of PHC centres.
Methods: This study systematically reviewed articles published from 2000 to 2019 in the Web of Science, Scopus, ScienceDirect, Springer, PubMed and ProQuest. The following keywords were used: ((primary care OR primary health care) AND (accreditation) AND (impact OR effect OR output OR outcome OR influence OR result OR consequences)). The database search yielded a total of 41256 articles, among which 30 articles were finally included in the review.
Results: Accreditation showed the most positive impacts on the quality, effectiveness, human resource management and strategic management of PHC services. Accreditation also positively affected safety, responsiveness, accessibility, customer satisfaction, documentation, leadership, efficiency and continuity of care. Few negative impacts were noted, including the possibility of accreditation being used as a bureaucratic tool, high cost of acquiring accreditation, difficulties in understanding the accreditation process, high staff turnover rate in accredited PHC centres and weak sustainability of some accreditation programmes.
Conclusion: Given its numerous positive impacts, accreditation could be used to effectively improve the performance of PHC centres. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0dac19ab948f41a0a169191330fd079f2023-11-13T06:03:47ZengAcademy of Family Physicians of MalaysiaMalaysian Family Physician1985-22742023-10-01186310.51866/rv.274Impacts of accreditation on the performance of primary health care centres: A systematic reviewJafar Sadegh TabriziAtefeh As’habiMaryam NazariMasoumeh Ebrahimi TavaniMehdi HaghiFarid GharibiIntroduction: Evidence on the impacts of accreditation on primary health care (PHC) services is inconsistent. Thus, this study aimed to assess the impacts of accreditation on the performance of PHC centres. Methods: This study systematically reviewed articles published from 2000 to 2019 in the Web of Science, Scopus, ScienceDirect, Springer, PubMed and ProQuest. The following keywords were used: ((primary care OR primary health care) AND (accreditation) AND (impact OR effect OR output OR outcome OR influence OR result OR consequences)). The database search yielded a total of 41256 articles, among which 30 articles were finally included in the review. Results: Accreditation showed the most positive impacts on the quality, effectiveness, human resource management and strategic management of PHC services. Accreditation also positively affected safety, responsiveness, accessibility, customer satisfaction, documentation, leadership, efficiency and continuity of care. Few negative impacts were noted, including the possibility of accreditation being used as a bureaucratic tool, high cost of acquiring accreditation, difficulties in understanding the accreditation process, high staff turnover rate in accredited PHC centres and weak sustainability of some accreditation programmes. Conclusion: Given its numerous positive impacts, accreditation could be used to effectively improve the performance of PHC centres.https://e-mfp.org/wp-content/uploads/18.63.pdfaccreditationprimary health careperformance |
| spellingShingle | Jafar Sadegh Tabrizi Atefeh As’habi Maryam Nazari Masoumeh Ebrahimi Tavani Mehdi Haghi Farid Gharibi Impacts of accreditation on the performance of primary health care centres: A systematic review Malaysian Family Physician accreditation primary health care performance |
| title | Impacts of accreditation on the performance of primary health care centres: A systematic review |
| title_full | Impacts of accreditation on the performance of primary health care centres: A systematic review |
| title_fullStr | Impacts of accreditation on the performance of primary health care centres: A systematic review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Impacts of accreditation on the performance of primary health care centres: A systematic review |
| title_short | Impacts of accreditation on the performance of primary health care centres: A systematic review |
| title_sort | impacts of accreditation on the performance of primary health care centres a systematic review |
| topic | accreditation primary health care performance |
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