Abstract

Accreditation is designed to improve patient safety and quality of care through assessing whether hospitals have appropriate clinical governance systems and training programs in place. Despite widespread adoption, there is little evidence that accreditation programs are cost effective in achieving their stated aims. Hospital infection control standards are common across accreditation programs and hospital acquired infection rates are routinely promoted as a quality indicator of acute care. We hypothesised that hospitals with higher accreditation scores would have reduced infection rates through a co-ordinated governance approach to infection control. Our aim was to assess the change in hospital acquired infection rates …

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