Abstract:
Purpose: The study aimed to ranking the challenges of accreditation standards implementation in private and public hospitals. Methodology: The method of data collection was descriptive research of field studies branch. Statistical population included the managing director, manager, matron and head of Quality Control (accreditation) of public and private hospital of Tehran. For collecting data, a questionnaire was designed in 39 item based on reviewing of literature and previous scale. Content and face validity of this questionnaire was considered and confirmed in separately stages; also, reliability of this questionnaire investigated through Cronbach’s alpha and for whole dimensions were higher than 0.7. In final, for data analysis and testing assumptions, exploratory factor analysis and Friedman test has been administered by using SPSS-20. Finding: result of exploratory factor analysis showed that challenges of accreditation standard implementation were classified in 9 aspects and explained 72.4% variance of this variable. These 9 factors in order to priority are encouraging drivers; perception of accreditation standards; financial resources; quality improvement; management knowledge, skills and commitment; support of regulatory initiatives; standard & surveying development; human resources and determining macro policies and procedures. Also finding showed that there are differences between the ranking of these challenges in public and private hospitals. Originality Value: the results of the study showed that the challenges which have the highest rank are ones of the main obstacles of implementation of accreditation in hospitals and more attention should be given to them.
Machine summary:
Ranking of Challenges of Accreditation Standards Implementation in Public and private Hospitals: A comparative approach Mojgan Zarifraftar* Graduate student of Doctorate in Business Administration, Institute of Business Administration, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France Original Article: Received 11 Jan. 2018 Accepted 10 March.
These 9 factors in order to priority are encouraging drivers; perception of accreditation standards; financial resources; quality improvement; management knowledge, skills and commitment; support of regulatory initiatives; standard & surveying development; human resources and determining macro policies and procedures.
2013); Table 1: Reference of variables and questions (View the image of this page) Zarifraftar UCT Journal of Management and Accounting Studies Vol 6 Issue 2, June 2018 Vriable {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} To what extent are complete data resources available for implementation of accreditation standards?
Challenges of accreditation standard implementation are Support of regulatory initiatives, Encouraging drivers, Perception of accreditation standards, Determining macro policies and procedures, Standards and Surveying development, Professional requirements, Knowledge, skills and commitment of management, Human resources, Financial& facilities Resources, Quality improvement.
Furthermore, the hypothesis below is used to see whether all the challenges related to Table 4: Ranking of Accreditation Implementation Challenges in both Sectors (View the image of this page) Studying the mean and ranking of challenges to implementation of accreditation, indicates that the challenges from the highest to the lowest are respectively: encouraging drivers; perception of accreditation standards; financial resources; quality improvement; management knowledge, skills and commitment; support of regulatory initiatives; standard & surveying development; human resources and determining macro policies and procedures.