Accreditation in healthcare is an evaluating process of healthcare organizations that encourages them to stay at the specific level of standards and maintain progress. According to the research by Carrasco-Peralta, Herrera-Usagre, Reyes-Alcazar, and Torres-Olivera (2019), health professionals perceive the accreditation process positively as it furthers the organizational change, improves patient-centered care and safety culture, and the quality of clinical records. In addition, accreditation minimizes risks of misdiagnosis, advances the level of health aid to the patient, comforts the work conditions for employees, and evaluates leading statistical records according to the standards.
Accreditation implements up-to-date devices that can simplify healthcare professionals’ work, make the interconnections between the personnel better, and prevent misdiagnosis and wrong document filling in. The specific of work in health acquire parallel thinking and making precise decisions. The systems uniting work of the hospital or a chain of hospitals can remind the doctor about essential details in patient’s treatment, show reference numbers and analysis of the samples, unite the communication of physicians from different fields while treating a patient. According to Bogh et al. (2018), most of the employees in healthcare in Denmark felt positive about accreditation rules and noted that it was creating a new structure and a shared language.
Accrediting bodies can put health organizations on probation due to incomplete following of the criteria. For instance, Joint Commission has put UNC Hospital found several problems during the survey (Kommers, 2019). According to the article, the lack of furniture and ligature equipment was found, along with incomplete or inadequate filling in the documentation of doctor orders. To prevent that probation in the future, health care organizations should educate personnel to work according to the criteria and hire extra employees responsible for documentation checking. These minor details can cause inconvenience in the working area and influence statistical records.
In conclusion, accreditation acquires healthcare bodies to follow the standards that improve the quality of aid provided to the patient. It also inserts well-working systems and standards for the documentation that evaluate the hospitals better. Following the same criteria, the work in healthcare can become better systematized, interconnections between colleagues may be simplified, and the number of misdiagnoses can be significantly reduced.
References
Bogh, S. B., Blom, A., Raben, D. C., Braithwaite, J., Thrude, B., Hollnagel, E., & von Plessen, C. (2018). Hospital accreditation: Staff experiences and perceptions. International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 31(5), 420-427. Web.
Carrasco-Peralta, J. A., Herrera-Usagre, M., Reyes-Alcazar, V., & Torres-Olivera, A. (2019). Healthcare accreditation as trigger of organizational change: The view of professionals. Journal of Healthcare Quality Research, 34(2), 59-65. Web.
Kommers, A-M. (2019). UNC hospitals put on probation by Joint Commission. Becker’s Healthcare. Web.