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....

The NHS is now in its third year of contracting. We are repeatedly told by the Department of Health that purchasing is "the main vehicle for achieving better health and better health services."' To what extent are health authorities in a position to ensure more equitable distribution of health by commissioning the most appropriate package of high quality and value for money services?"2 Below I ...

accreditation survey of al-kindy teaching hospital during the months of february–may 2011 was performed as part of its technical assistance services to the management of the hospital. the hospital had formed an accreditation committee in october 2010 and began the process of self-assessment and implementation of the 2010 iraqi national accreditation standards for hospitals. as the hospital near...

BACKGROUND Using a questionnaire, the EC4 (European Communities Confederation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine) has collated an inventory of the accreditation procedures for medical laboratories in the EU. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Accreditation of medical laboratories in the countries of the EU is mostly carried out in cooperation with national accreditation bodies. These national ...

Background: The preparedness and safety of hospitals in disasters are essential to maintain the health and survival of the community. Numerous studies have shown that the level of preparedness of Iranian hospitals is moderate and low. Lack of comprehensive hospital standards for disaster preparedness is one of the reasons. This study aimed to develop hospital accreditation standards for hospita...

Background We hypothesize that reusable, on-site specialty instrument trays available to plastic surgery residents in the emergency department (ED) for bedside procedures are more cost-effective than disposable on-site and remote re-usable operating room (OR) instruments at our institution. Methods We completed a cost-effectiveness analysis comparing the use of disposable on-site kits and rem...

We investigate if Malaysian listed companies engaged in financial information fraud during distressed after two years of US subprime mortgage crisis.We also the impact fraudulence bankruptcy prediction and misclassification errors. This study used consumer product on main board timeframe is from 2011 till 2015. The Altman Z score indicates that 37 out 133 are financially distressed. Meanwhile, ...

BACKGROUND Developing countries frequently use hospital accreditation to guarantee quality and patient safety. However, implementation of accreditation standards is demanding on organisations. Furthermore, the empirical literature on the benefits of accreditation is sparse and this is the first empirical interrupted time series analysis designed to examine the impact of healthcare accreditation...

This study asks whether investors learn differently from gains versus losses, whether learning is better or worse when people are actively investing in a security or passively observing its payoffs, and whether there are personal characteristics that drive learning performance. Experimental evidence shows that the ability to learn from financial information is worse in the loss domain, especial...