Certification, accreditation, and quality control in behavior analysis

Licensure, Accreditation, and Certification: Approaches to Health Services Quality

Sleep medicine certification and accreditation.

Sleep-disorders medicine is undergoing substantial evolution in terms of testing and therapy. In order to ensure that the providers of care for patients with sleep disorders provide quality and safe care, various types of individual certification and sleep-disorders-center accreditation programs have been developed. These programs should help to ensure optimal patient care.

[Accreditation and certification in coloproctology in Europe].

APPROVED: 2013 accreditation and certification decision rules.

The Joint Commission’s Accreditation Committee approved the 2014 accreditation and certification decision rules for all accreditation and certification programs. The revised accreditation decision rules are effective for surveys as of January 1, 2014, while the revised certification decision rules are effective immediately. Revisions are shown in the boxes on pages 3–7 for accreditation program...

Training, certification and accreditation for eye teams

Recent data suggests there may never be enough ophthalmologists to meet the needs of global eye care.1 One way to lessen the impact of the shortage is to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of each ophthalmologist by putting together a team of well trained personnel to support them. This increases both the availability and quality of eye care. The ophthalmologist-led eye care team can inc...