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External inspection of compliance with standards for improved healthcare outcomes

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BACKGROUND: Inspection systems are used in healthcare to promote quality improvements (i.e. to achieve changes in organisational structures or processes, healthcare provider behaviour and patient outcomes). These systems are based on the assumption that externally promoted adherence to evidence-based standards (through inspection/assessment) will result in higher quality of healthcare. However, the benefits of external inspection in terms of organisational-, provider- and patient-level outcom...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1002/14651858.CD008992.pub3

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Nuffield Department of Population Health
Sub department:
Population Health
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Publisher:
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Journal:
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews More from this journal
Issue:
12
Article number:
CD008992
Publication date:
2016-12-02
Acceptance date:
2016-12-02
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ISSN:
1469-493X


Language:
English
Pubs id:
pubs:666783
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uuid:8ee1d5a3-034e-4ca9-9a21-144e8825f404
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pubs:666783
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666783
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2017-01-17

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