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International Journal for Quality in Health Care Advance Access originally published online on October 2, 2008
International Journal for Quality in Health Care 2009 21(1):27-28; doi:10.1093/intqhc/mzn045
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press in association with the International Society for Quality in Health Care; all rights reserved

Editorial

Promoting research into healthcare accreditation/external evaluation: advancing an ISQua initiative

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In 2005, the Research Working Group of the ISQua Accreditation Council began discussing how to stimulate, promote and share accreditation/external evaluation research and information. What research in this area currently exists? What are the research gaps? What mechanisms might be developed to facilitate the sharing of this research?

Healthcare accreditation started in 1918. However, since the 1980s there has been a marked increase in expansion globally, with accreditation organizations now existing in over 70 countries and using a great amount of resources . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Rosa Suñol

Avedis Donabedian Research Institute
CIBER Epidemilogía y Salud Pública - (CIBERESP)
E-mail: rsunol@fadq.org

Wendy Nicklin

Accreditation Canada

Charles Bruneau

Haute Autorité de Santé

Stuart Whittaker

The Council for Health Services Accreditation of Southern Africa (COHSASA)


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