TITLE:
The Impact of Hospital Accreditation System: Perspective of Organizational Learning
AUTHORS:
Yu H. Yan, Chih M. Kung
KEYWORDS:
Hospital Accreditation, Organizational Learning, Medical Care
JOURNAL NAME:
Health,
Vol.7 No.9,
September
8,
2015
ABSTRACT: Objectives: Organizational learning is used to being a very important topic about hospital management and even is identified as the source of a hospital’s competitive strength. The study tries to explore the correlation between organizational learning and hospital accreditation awareness from the medical institution operation management’s point of view. Methods: We designed the questionnaire based on the cross-section survey, which included a total of 498 hospitals through-out Taiwan as the subjects (1922 copies of questionnaire were distributed, 4 copies per hospital). As a result, 306 returned the questionnaire (995 copies of valid questionnaire), a valid response rate was 49.94%. Then, we conducted the multiple regression analysis. Results: The factors critical to the operations management accreditation awareness include age, hospital ownership, hospital lever and team learning (p
