BreastScreen Tasmania (BST) is a health service organisation with a complex information ecology dominated by information integration and work practice standardization embodied in the client record. The client record is oriented to provide evidence of organization-level standards compliance. Client record data is also used to support professional practice specific communication, the coordination...

As medical education and continuous professional development shift toward an outcomes-based model, there is increasing focus on the documentation of physician self-assessment and a commitment to lifelong learning. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education is helping prepare trainees for these changes by increasing the focus of graduate medical education on outcomes through the de...

Compliance with established standards has been the benchmark of evaluating all kinds of academic, professional, commercial and administrative endeavours over the last one hundred years or so. Academic awards, for example, have been gained by passing examinations specific to that discipline of study. The awards themselves have been subject to accreditation procedures, often established by both i...

BACKGROUND The Opioid Treatment Accreditation Course (OTAC) is a mandatory accreditation requirement in New South Wales, Australia, and aims to prepare medical practitioners for the provision of safe and effective Opioid Substitution Treatment to people with opioid dependence. The course has a strong focus on safe prescribing practices and the course design includes a Professional Practice Foru...

The network that local health officials use to communicate about professional issues contains two groups of LHDs that are influential for either their ability to spread information or to innovate. Both groups are more likely to conduct community health assessments and develop health improvement plans. Since these activities are fundamental aspects of accreditation and health reform, the finding...

The interest in competencies, standards, and quality assurance in the professional preparation of public health professionals whose work involves health promotion and health education dates back several decades. In Australia, Europe, and North America, where the interest in credentialing has gained momentum, there have been rapidly evolving efforts to codify competencies and standards of practi...

OBJECTIVE Our purpose in this study was to examine the preclinical curricular content pertaining to driving evaluation and rehabilitation (DE/R) included in professional entry-level occupational therapy programs. METHOD An e-mail survey containing questions about the program's structure and extent of course material related to DE/R in the curriculum was sent to directors of all 144 U.S. accre...

background: in recent year, the accreditation process as the most important assurance and improvement of the quality of higher education, especially in medical sciences, has been set forthed. the need for accreditation of nursing faculties as the same of medical sciences has been acutely felt. yet there are not compiled standards at the same time, to describe present and desirable quality via a...