FULL DISCLOSURE POLICY In accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education’s Standards for Commercial Support, all CME providers are required to disclose to the activity audience the relevant financial relationships of the planners, teachers, and authors involved in the development of CME content. An individual has a relevant financial relationship if he or she has a f...

FULL DISCLOSURE POLICY In accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education’s Standards for Commercial Support, all CME providers are required to disclose to the activity audience the relevant financial relationships of the planners, teachers, and authors involved in the development of CME content. An individual has a relevant financial relationship if he or she has a f...

Organizations need to protect information assets against cyber crime, denial-of-service attacks, web hackers, data breaches, identity and credit card theft, and fraud. Criminals often try to achieve financial, political, or personal gain through these attacks, so the threats that their actions prompt are insidious motivators for organizations to adopt information systems security (ISS) approach...

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...

Australian nature-based tourism and ecotourism have become popular forms of recreational activity. Tasmania attracts twice the Australian national average number of nature-based tourists and ecotourists (thirty per cent). The growth of this tourism sector has prompted measures to ensure that experiences are of high quality, and that environmental impacts are adequately managed. ISO 14000 is a c...

in order to improve the quality of education in universities of medical sciences (ums), and because of the key role of education development centers (edcs), an accreditation scheme was developed to evaluate their performance.a group of experts in the medical education field was selected based on pre-defined criteria by edc of ministry of health and medical education. the team, worked intensivel...

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...