2013 Volume 7 Issue 1 Pages 99-105
The objective of this paper is to evaluate Japanese and Korean systems of accreditation of healthcare organizations from meta-evaluation aspects, then to provide improvement points of them for the future sake. The frame work of this consists of four factors which are evaluation environment, evaluation processes, evaluation results and utilization of evaluation results. The findings are as follows: 1) there are different positions in terms of evaluation and accreditation objectives between organizations of accreditation and healthcare institutions; 2) there is a pointed out fact in evaluation processes that the stress intensity of staff who is in charge of preparing for certifications is high;3) there are low utilizations of information based on the results of evaluation by patients who get benefits of medical services; 4) there are common factors that even if both countries obtained certification, there would have no direct relation to the increase of revenue of medical institutions.
