Diagnosis of cancer is usually a life‑changing experience for patients and their loved ones. As they seek treatment for their disease, cancer patients need to know that they are receiving safe and appropriate care. When the cancer patient receives radiation treatment at an accredited radiation oncology facility, he can rest assured that his treatment will be done at a facility that has met the ...

Background: Hospital accreditation is an external evaluation of a hospital’s structures, processes and results by an independent professional accreditation body using pre-established optimum standards. Hospital accreditation has an important role in improving quality, safety, effectiveness and efficiency of hospital services. A generic questionnaire is usually used to accredit all hospitals. Ho...

Accreditation is one method of assuring quality. Accreditation requires the setting of standards and the creation of a robust and reliable process for assessing them. Accreditation offers different advantages to different groups, eg quality assurance to commissioners and the boards of provider organisations, confidence and choice for patients, and a quality improvement pathway for services to f...

The Council for the Accreditation of Education Programs (CAEP)—the professional accreditation organization for teacher education programs in the U.S.—has charged a high level Commission with the development of new standards for accreditation to govern the programs that it accredits. CAEP is the product of an amalgamation of two earlier accrediting organizations—the National Council for the Accr...

The accreditation process is comprehensive, time-consuming, and often anxiety producing. However, this process of peer review identifies areas of excellence as well as those requiring additional attention. Accreditation is a process in which the nursing profession excels and of which we can be proud.

The present paper reviews the process by which the accreditation for the Paediatric Allergy specialty has been implemented in Europe according to the Section of Pediatrics Assembly of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. The itinerary by which the members of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Allergy and Clinical Immunology (SEICAP) have gained this accreditation and how it ca...