Petrusevska, Aneta and Dimitrovska, Vera and Zisovska, Elizabeta and Spasovski, Mome (2016) Standpoint of Medical Staff about Accreditation in a Preaccreditation Period in Hospitals in Republic of Macedonia. International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR), 160 (2). pp. 242-251. ISSN 2307-4531
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Abstract
Abstract
A prospective cross-sectional study was conducted, performed in healthcare organizations in R.Makedonia. The study was conducted in 17 healthcare organizations and, 402 healthcare givers took part in the survey. The tool for the study was a questionnaire consisting of 4 questions of a closed type.
In our study biggest procent of respondants (59.2% agree , 20.9% strongly agree), according to their answers , that accreditation is an effective process for improving quality of services provided to patients/clients. Also, healthcare staff according to their answers , have e positive attitude towards preventing potential organizational problems by complying with accreditation standards. The biggest procent of respondants (59.0 % , 11.4 % ) agree, strongly agree, that the accreditation process is a meaningful process to improve the daily work of healthcare professionals. Majority of the respondants, judging by their answers (86,1% ), agree, that if their organization was to undertke a process of accreditation ,they would approve it and take an active part in it.
We can conclude that the accreditation process will be embraced by the medical staff as a process that can improve many aspects of delivering quality of servics to the patients as well as better organizing the day to day work of the heathcare organization.
Accreditation as a worldwide accepted process, has its core functions to promote continuous improvements applying standards and supplying feedback from this undertaking. There are data indicating that the standpoint of healthcare professional toward accreditation is generally supportive. R. Macedonia is in a period just before introducing of accreditation in health care system and in this period it is essential that perceprtions about accreditation be considered so that this process will truly be a promotor towards quality. This study aims at identifying determinants and their impact upon an accreditation process to be, from the perspective of the medical staff in hospitals in R. Macedonia.
key words: accreditation in healthcare; perceptions of medicall staff; problem solving; routines; hospitals; organizational problems.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Medical and Health Sciences > Clinical medicine |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medical Science |
| Depositing User: | Elizabeta Zisovska |
| Date Deposited: | 09 May 2016 08:59 |
| Last Modified: | 09 May 2016 08:59 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/15757 |
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