OBJECTIVES This study describes the development of the Zambia Hospital Accreditation Program from 1997 to 2000. Ten major milestones are presented and discussed, as are challenges to the program. DESIGN Data were collected through a review of written documents, interviews with major stakeholders, hospital visits, and discussions with implementers. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Zambia has successful...

Professional teachers are who have basic competence within themselves. But most of what happens is still not aware the importance for teachers. This study aimed to determine relationship between professional 21st-century and children's science abilities based on their accreditation. Thus, it can be seen connection accreditation PAUD in abilities. The type research used this quantitative, using ...

Actually, each clinical and/or biochemical laboratory has responsibility for demonstrating its competence and therefore must obtain results of good quality. Medical laboratories provide vital medical services to different clients: clinicians requesting a test, patients from whom the sample was collected, public health and medical-legal instances, referral laboratories and authoritative bodies. ...

The relations between large bodies of money and the healing professions have often been ambigu‐ ous. Commercial interests have sought to influence the course and content of doctors’ education. On the other hand, foundations established through personal wealth have funded some of the principal reports and reflections that have shaped professional education. For example, the Carnegie Foundation s...

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 a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer a pragmatic definition of clinical excellence. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a conceptual review of key studies relating to clinical excellence. Findings – The pursuit of clinical excellence can be profitably considered in terms of 15 pillars of excellence comprising “technical” pillars, “personal” pillars, and “future” pillars. The f...

the most important mission of hospitals is to provide appropriate and high quality care for patients. different methods and models have been used to assess the quality of care. one conventional model used recently in many countries is the accreditation model which has been efficient in developing structural, process, and outcome standards. accreditation is a systematic process carried out based...

Over the past 5 years, a new procedure for admitting specialist to professional activities has been introduced. The paper analyzes results of primary accreditation specialists from NEFU Medical Institute during pandemic and 2017–2019. survey 2019 are also presented. monitoring revealed that there is tendency towards increase in share accredited persons up 100 % last 2 years compared first intro...

Continuing medical education (CME) or continuing professional development (CPD), which is currently being implemented in Ukraine, an throughout a career, allows healthcare providers effectively perform their duties with the best results. This achieved thanks to coherent cooperation of accreditation bodies, organizers CPD and specialists, as well by introducing effective model accreditation, ens...