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  • Healthcare Management
  • Quality Improvement
  • Health Systems Research

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  • Healthcare accreditation is vital in developed nations but faces challenges in developing countries due to resource limitations.
  • Barriers include insufficient incentives, training, and shortages of human and material resources.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To describe the refinement, utilization, and outcomes of a self-assessment hospital accreditation tool tailored for resource-limited environments.
  • To assess the feasibility of implementing such a tool in a low-income country context.

Main Methods:

  • Stakeholders refined a set of standards into a 485-item self-assessment tool across 7 domains.
  • 40 hospitals participated in a pilot test, receiving training and debriefing from a study team over 8 weeks.

Main Results:

  • Hospitals demonstrated openness to rating their performance across all 485 measures.
  • Strengths included outreach programs, equipment availability, and waste segregation.
  • Weaknesses identified in care for vulnerable populations, staff accommodations, physician reviews, patient satisfaction, and sterilization equipment.

Conclusions:

  • A self-assessment approach to hospital standards is feasible in low-income countries.
  • This cost-effective method can serve as a foundation for establishing national accreditation bodies.
  • The Ministry of Health is pursuing further steps to implement national accreditation.