A importância da acreditação para a qualidade do serviço hospitalar e a segurança do paciente

Abstract

The current article has a main aim to identify in the literature the aspects about the importance of accreditation for hospital service quality and the patient’s safety. We have chosen to the exploratory research type. Descriptive, with a quantitative approach from a bibliographical review. The data collection were made on bases of Electronic data Scientific Electronic Library and Latino-Americana literature and Caribbean in Health Science. It has been used an instrument for articles characteri zation. It has been found 1230 publication of which 371 were available in com -plete text and 72 in Portuguese Language. From these ones, 27 were articles related to the theme. We Understand that accreditation can be considered an educational process that carries service providing institutions, especially health professionals, to acquiring the quality culture for the implementation of management excellence. This is fundamental for the process and the evaluation and quality certification and patient’s health.