A decade of commitment to hospital quality of care: overview of and perceptions on multicomponent quality improvement policies involving accreditation, public reporting, inspection and pay-for-performance

Table 1 Accreditation status in December 2019 and accreditation scores ranges between 2008 and 2018 in Flemish acute-care hospitals

Number of accreditation cycles undergone	Qualicor		JCI
Number of accreditation cycles undergone	Number of hospitals¹	Global scores (%), range²	Number of hospitals¹	Elements not met (n), range³	Elements partially met (n), range³
0	1	/	0	/	/
1	29	92–98	15	0–7	7–43
2	0	90–98	5	0–8	23–39
3	1	92–94	0	2–5	0–32
4	0	/	2	5–11	0–26

¹Out of all 53 Flemish acute-care hospitals
²For 24 completed surveys
³For 20 completed surveys. JCI examines over 300 standards, each with their own number of measurable elements, resulting in just under 1300 measurable elements. The number displayed in this table refers to the unmet or partially met measurable elements as determined by the JCI-auditors. The exact number of standards and measurable elements varies between editions of the standards manual. In Flemish hospitals, the fourth, fifth and sixth edition of the manual were used between 2008 and 2018

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