Abstract
Quality in healthcare is known to be one of the significant areas. Healthcare accreditation standards are dedicated to improve clinical practice and organizational performance. Therefore, standard development, review and approval processes play crucial role in healthcare accreditation. Different accreditation systems exist to monitor the quality of medical services provided. Kazakhstan has its own National accreditation system. The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan (MoH) is the only authorized body for national accreditation, as well as it assigns the Republican center for Healthcare Development (RCHD) as responsible organization for healthcare development. Accreditation Center of RCHD is one of the key organs that develops and reviews standards needed for accreditation, while MoH has key role in standard approval process. This paper is going to describe the implication of the Policy on development, review and approval of accreditation standards for healthcare organizations in Kazakhstan. Moreover, the limitations of the process will be discussed and recommendations will be presented.
Highlights
There has been developed a huge interest in the quality assurance, since it is known to have positive effect on health Nowadays, as many health care systems are concerned on the quality of provided medical care, many health care developing programs have been investigated
Accreditation is a public recognition by a healthcare accreditation body of the achievement of accreditation standards by a healthcare organization, demonstrated through an independent external peer assessment of that organization’s level of performance in relation to the standards.[1]
The aim of this paper is to discuss the implication of the Policy on development, review and approval of accreditation standards for healthcare organizations in Kazakhstan, through describing current situation in Kazakhstan and international experience of other countries on accreditation of medical organizations
Summary
There has been developed a huge interest in the quality assurance, since it is known to have positive effect on health Nowadays, as many health care systems are concerned on the quality of provided medical care, many health care developing programs have been investigated. Accreditation is a public recognition by a healthcare accreditation body of the achievement of accreditation standards by a healthcare organization, demonstrated through an independent external peer assessment of that organization’s level of performance in relation to the standards.[1] Initially, accreditation was developed only for hospitals, primary care, laboratories and other sectors were included into the assessment.[2] accrediting body provides a feedback with recommendations to the organization highlighting areas for improvement This is one of the benefits of the accreditation, as it helps to shape the healthcare itself
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