The authors will outline the automation of an Engineering Technology program assessment process. The program is located within the College of Engineering. The steps include development of the assessment tools, mapping the tools to the programs’ goals and objectives, integration of the tools into WebCT®, the role of student participation, and finally the collection, manipulation, and interpretat...

Accreditation surveys protect patients and personnel by monitoring health care facility compliance with rules, regulations, and best practices. Accreditation, or the lack of it, can affect a facility's ability to be reimbursed. The ability of personnel to follow best practices and adhere to regulatory requirements in the surgical processing department and the OR has a critical effect on reducin...

The accreditation systems of the United States, Canada, and Australia have been restructured to reflect the adoption by health services of the industrial model of continuous quality improvement. The industrial model of quality makes assumptions about management structures and the relation of process to outcome which are not readily transferable to the assessment of quality in health care. The a...

BACKGROUND In 2010, an accreditation system for occupational health services (OHS) in Norway was implemented. AIMS To examine OHS experiences of the accreditation system in Norway 4 years after its implementation. METHODS A web-based questionnaire was sent to all accredited OHS asking about their experiences with the accreditation system. Responses were compared with a similar survey conduc...

The paper lacks reliable, credible and trusted evidences to support the claims that the authors made. For instance, the authors claimed, " In Iran, at first, the hospital ac-creditation system had only focused on the structural standards and it was a lot of criticism. " No evidences for such a claim have been provided. The authors also wrote, " The hospital accredita-tion system in Iran emphasi...

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...

BACKGROUND Incorporating private healthcare providers into social health insurance schemes is an important means towards achieving universal health coverage in low and middle income countries. However, little research has been conducted about why private providers choose to participate in social health insurance systems in such contexts, or their experiences with these systems. We explored priv...

B eginning in 2013, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) required program directors to semiannually report milestone data for their trainees. The milestones are competency-based observable behaviors that mark a trainee’s developmental progression toward unsupervised practice by enhancing learner assessment and feedback and program evaluation and improvement. The aim ...