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## Background: Inspection systems are used in health care to promote quality improvements, i.e. to achieve changes in organisational structures or processes, healthcare provider behaviour and patient outcomes. these systems are based on the assumption that externally promoted adherence to evidence-based standards (through inspection/assessment) will result in higher quality of health care. however, the benefits of external inspection in terms of organisational, provider and patient level outcomes are not clear. ## Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of external inspection of compliance with standards in improving healthcare organisation behaviour, healthcare professional behaviour and patient outcomes. ## Search methods: We searched the following electronic databases for studies: the cochrane central register of controlled trials (central), medline, embase, cinahl, cochrane database of systematic reviews, database of abstracts of reviews of effectiveness, scopus, hmic, index to theses and intute from their inception dates up to may 2011. there was no language restriction and studies were included regardless of publication status. we searched the reference lists of included st

Author

Gerd Flodgren; Marie-Pascale Pomey; Sarah A Taber; Martin P Eccles

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Published

2011

Language

EN