Accreditation Procedure.

European accreditation of programmes of care in physical and rehabilitation medicine. Goals, pilot phase, new procedure.

Accountability and Accreditation: Putting Information Systems Accreditation into Perspective

Higher education in the United States has recently come under pressure from federal and state legislatures for failing to provide “value for money” because of an alleged lack of accountability and quality [U.S. Department of Education 2006]. This article will argue that, contrary to this view, institutes of higher learning have a rigorous quality assurance and accountability mechanism in place,...

The accreditation system after the "next accreditation system".

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and the American Board of Medical Specialties and its member boards introduced the six domains of physician competency in 1999. This initiated a national dialogue concerning the elements of competency of the physician, and incorporation of these elements into the framework of evaluation of residents and fellows, as well as the edu...

Demystifying imaging laboratory accreditation.

t is self-evident that patients expect high quality of the services they receive. For this reason, procedural-based medical (therapeutic) services have long been subject to some form of quality assessment. In the same vein, it is also appropriate that similar expectations have recently come about for cardiovascular (CV) imaging (diagnostic) services. In this report, we provide the background of...

Program evaluation for accreditation.

Program evaluation in preparation for accreditation provides opportunities for the identification of program strengths, weaknesses, and improvement potential. In the present study, naturalistic inquiry, an evaluation methodology responsive to the concerns of persons with a stake in the program, was successfully used in preparation for the accreditation of an occupational therapy program. The ex...