Whether Hospital Accreditation Has Led to Improvement of Care Quality in Iran or not?

The most important mission of hospitals is to provide appropriate and high quality care for patients. Different methods and models have been used to assess the quality of care. One conventional model used recently in many countries is the accreditation model which has been efficient in developing structural, process, and outcome standards. Accreditation is a systematic process carried out based on predetermined standards for evaluating the performance of hospitals.1,2 With the recent implementation of the hospital accreditation model in Iran, whether the accreditation has improved the quality of care is under question.