From the perspective of the new institutional economics, the institutional change of hospital accreditation & evaluation in China was summarized and the experiences of hospital accreditation & evaluation from international organizations and other countries were refined to put forward the counter-measures for institutional innovations of accreditation & evaluation in China. First, it’s urgent for the government to issue the standards of hospital accreditation and discriminating hospital evaluation; second, these standards should pass the certification by the International Society for Quality in Health Care External Evaluation Association; finally, China should construct the commission on certification and accreditation administration for healthcare to supervise the social or third part organizations.
Hospital accreditation involves a wide range of aspects and has a significant impact, receiving widespread attention from multiple parties and is a topic worthy of in-depth research. This article provides a review of research on hospital accreditation both domestically and internationally, focusing on key issues such as whether accreditation can promote the improvement of medical quality and whether third-party evaluation should be introduced. The aim is to reveal the shortcomings of research on hospital accreditation in China, provide direction for subsequent research on hospital accreditation in China, and provide a reference for improving the hospital accreditation system in China.
Based on the national 2020 and 2022 versions of Accreditation Standards for Tertiary Hospital, the Hospitals Accreditation Office of the Sichuan Provincial Health Commission organized to develop Implementation Rules for the Accreditation Standards for Tertiary Comprehensive Hospitals in Sichuan Province (2023 Edition). In order to guide the evaluated hospitals to comprehensively understand and master the content of hospital infection prevention and control (IPC), this article interprets the main evaluation points and scoring methods of hospital infection management in the detailed rules, emphasizes on organizational management, system implementation, monitoring/supervision, and connotation improvement for IPC. The purpose is to make the evaluated hospitals attach importance to the standardized implementation of daily work of IPC, focus on the routine, objective, and quantitative approach to accreditation work, and continuously achieve the effect of quality improvement in IPC.