PMID- 29595591
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20191108
LR  - 20191108
IS  - 1550-5022 (Electronic)
IS  - 1078-4659 (Linking)
VI  - 24 Suppl 3
DP  - 2018 May/Jun
TI  - Quality Improvement and Performance Management Benefits of Public Health 
      Accreditation: National Evaluation Findings.
PG  - S3-S9
LID - 10.1097/PHH.0000000000000692 [doi]
AB  - OBJECTIVE: To identify the quality improvement (QI) and performance management 
      benefits reported by public health departments as a result of participating in 
      the national, voluntary program for public health accreditation implemented by 
      the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB). DESIGN: We gathered quantitative 
      data via Web-based surveys of all applicant and accredited public health 
      departments when they completed 3 different milestones in the PHAB accreditation 
      process. PARTICIPANTS: Leadership from 324 unique state, local, and tribal public 
      health departments in the United States. RESULTS: Public health departments that 
      have achieved PHAB accreditation reported the following QI and performance 
      management benefits: improved awareness and focus on QI efforts; increased QI 
      training among staff; perceived increases in QI knowledge among staff; 
      implemented new QI strategies; implemented strategies to evaluate effectiveness 
      and quality; used information from QI processes to inform decision making; and 
      perceived achievement of a QI culture. The reported implementation of QI 
      strategies and use of information from QI processes to inform decision making was 
      greater among recently accredited health departments than among health 
      departments that had registered their intent to apply but not yet undergone the 
      PHAB accreditation process. Respondents from health departments that had been 
      accredited for 1 year reported higher levels of staff QI training and perceived 
      increases in QI knowledge than those that were recently accredited. CONCLUSIONS: 
      PHAB accreditation has stimulated QI and performance management activities within 
      public health departments. Health departments that pursue PHAB accreditation are 
      likely to report immediate increases in QI and performance management activities 
      as a result of undergoing the PHAB accreditation process, and these benefits are 
      likely to be reported at a higher level, even 1 year after the accreditation 
      decision.
FAU - Siegfried, Alexa
AU  - Siegfried A
AD  - Public Health Research Department, NORC at the University of Chicago, Bethesda, 
      Maryland.
FAU - Heffernan, Megan
AU  - Heffernan M
FAU - Kennedy, Mallory
AU  - Kennedy M
FAU - Meit, Michael
AU  - Meit M
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - United States
TA  - J Public Health Manag Pract
JT  - Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP
JID - 9505213
MH  - Accreditation/*standards/trends
MH  - Humans
MH  - Program Evaluation/methods
MH  - Public Health/methods/*standards
MH  - *Quality Improvement
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
EDAT- 2018/03/30 06:00
MHDA- 2019/11/09 06:00
CRDT- 2018/03/30 06:00
PHST- 2018/03/30 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2018/03/30 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/11/09 06:00 [medline]
AID - 00124784-201805001-00002 [pii]
AID - 10.1097/PHH.0000000000000692 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Public Health Manag Pract. 2018 May/Jun;24 Suppl 3:S3-S9. doi: 
      10.1097/PHH.0000000000000692.