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Licensing, quality of care and the surveillance process
Author(s)	Rachel Fleishman, Dror Walk, Gad Mizrahi
Journal title	International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, vol 9, part 7, 1996
Pages	pp 39-45
Keywords	Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Registration eg homes, nursing homes ; Management [care] ; Quality ; Inspection ; Israel.
Annotation	As part of the evaluation of an experimental programme of inspection of institutions in Israel for semi-independent and frail older people using the regulation, assessment, follow-up (RAF) method, an examination was made of the licensing status, quality of care, and completeness of the inspection process. Included in the examination were 126 institutions which were inspected between 1990 and 1993. The question of whether the inspection process is performed in a professional manner and uniformly in institutions of varying quality was answered satisfactorily. The authors conclude that inspectors' recommendation on whether or not to grant a licence were usually based on findings about the quality of care. Nevertheless, to reinforce the relationship between licensing and quality of care, it was suggested that inspectors be given clear criteria of quality on which to base their recommendations regarding conditional licensing. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-990121208 A
Classmark	KW: LHB: Q3: QA: 59: 3U: 7H6 *
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