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Article History

Received: 22 December 2025

Accepted: 15 May 2026

First Online: 8 June 2026

Declarations

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: Ethical approval was not required for this study, as it does not have any direct involvement of human participants, patients, or identifiable personal data.

: Not applicable. The study did not involve individual patient data, images, or identifiable personal information.

: The study is relied on secondary data from the accreditation assessment reports, which restricts the scope of the study to document non-compliance only. Also, study included a small sample size of six hospitals from Ahmedabad, which limits the generalizability of the results to the other health care settings in different regions of India.

: The authors declare no competing interests.