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Healthcare Management vocabulary · Quality and Accreditation

Inspection

Meaning in healthcare management, with examples

/ɪnˈspekʃən/nounCommon term

In healthcare management, inspection means: An official visit by a regulator or public authority to check whether a hospital meets legal requirements and standards of care.

In Turkish: denetim, teftiş

How it is used

Inspections can be announced or unannounced. Hospitals prepare for, pass or fail an inspection, and inspectors publish reports and sometimes ratings. Unlike voluntary accreditation, inspection by the regulator is usually compulsory.

Example sentences

  1. The inspection team arrived unannounced on Tuesday morning.

  2. After the inspection, we were told to improve medicine storage on two wards.

Common collocations

  • unannounced inspection
  • pass an inspection
  • inspection report
  • prepare for an inspection
  • accreditationOfficial recognition by an independent body that a hospital or service meets agreed standards of quality and safety, given after a detailed assessment.
  • complianceActing in line with laws, regulations, standards and internal policies, and the work of checking and proving that this happens.
  • clinical auditA review that compares the care actually given with agreed standards, so that gaps can be found, practice changed and the results checked again.
  • clinical governanceThe system through which a healthcare organisation is held responsible for improving the quality of its services and keeping high standards of care.

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