TY  - JOUR
AB  - Discusses the characteristics of health care accreditation schemes, especially the implications of their voluntary status. Singles out the Trent small hospital accreditation scheme (TSHAS) for detailed and systematic evaluation. Describes the quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods, which involved a meta‐analysis of the literature, interviews with key staff and questionnaires completed by other participants in TSHAS. The main findings, divided into ten themes, confirm much of the published work on accreditation. The findings also provide new insights into the nature and value of health care accreditation, notably about the direction in which accreditation needs to go if both community and larger hospital accreditation is to survive.
VL  - 10
IS  - 3
SN  - 0952-6862
DO  - 10.1108/09526869710167012
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/09526869710167012
AU  - Hurst Keith
PY  - 1997
Y1  - 1997/01/01
TI  - The nature and value of small and community hospital accreditation
T2  - International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 94
EP  - 106
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -