HOW DO NON-INVASIVE IMAGING FACILITIES PERCEIVE THE ACCREDITATION PROCESS? RESULTS OF AN INTERSOCIETAL ACCREDITATION COMMISSION (IAC) SURVEY

Accreditation process in European countries - an EFLM survey.

BACKGROUND Accreditation is a valuable resource for medical laboratories. The development of quality systems based on ISO 15189 has taken place in many laboratories in the European countries but data about accreditation remain scarce. The EFLM Working Group "Accreditation and ISO/CEN standards" conducted a survey that reviews the current state of the accreditation process in European countries....

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations was founded in 1951 as a private, not-for-profit organization that evaluates and accredits hospitals and other healthcare organizations. In 1987, the JCAHO launched its Agenda for Change to create a more modern and sophisticated accreditation process to place primary emphasis on actual performance. Coincident with this new emphas...

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...

A proposal for an international accreditation process.

Accreditation: Non-governmental and Voluntary?

Accreditation, as an approach to quality assurance and improvement, has a hundred-year history in the United States. Other countries have started to establish such systems in the past twenty years. Recently, we have witnessed numerous discussions and some practical steps toward establishing accreditation systems in Iran. A major practical challenge for such newer accreditation systems is that...