AAALAC International is a private, nonprofit organization that promotes humane treatment of animals in science through a voluntary international accreditation program. AAALAC International accreditation is recognized around the world as a symbol of high quality animal care and use for research, teaching and testing, as well as promoting animal welfare. Animals owned by the institution that are ...

Although accreditation is over 100 years old, the accreditation of information systems programs is a new experience for information systems professionals. This paper describes the important aspects of accreditation as a process of excellence and shows how information systems faculty members can now employ that process to improve the overall quality of their programs for the benefit of their stu...

The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of organizational self-assessment as a tool to enhance organizational capacity in nonprofit human service agencies when it is performed as part of an accreditation process. Eighty-eight organizations completed a self-assessment pretest designed to measure capacity at the beginning of an accreditation process and then the same self-assessment ...

When several databases with multilevel security policies are federated to form a tightly coupled federated database management system, heterogeneities such as different accreditation ranges must be overcome. This paper describes an extended methodology to integrate policies that use different lattices as accreditation ranges. A semi-automatic process obtains the federated accreditation range an...

PURPOSE The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine (RRC-IM) evaluate internal medicine residency programs using a list of 301 program requirements. The authors investigated which requirements, program demographics, and site-visitor characteristics were the strongest predictors of accreditation. METHOD The authors surveyed ...

BACKGROUND Accreditation has become ubiquitous across the international health care landscape. Award of full accreditation status in health care is viewed, as it is in other sectors, as a valid indicator of high quality organisational performance. However, few studies have empirically demonstrated this assertion. The value of accreditation, therefore, remains uncertain, and this persists as a c...

INTRODUCTION The World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO) introduces a step wise incremental accreditation approach to improving quality of laboratory and it is a new initiative in Ethiopia and activities are performed for implementation of accreditation program. METHODS Descriptive cross sectional study was conducted in 30 laboratory facilities including 6 laboratory s...

Accreditation of medical residency programs has become globally important. Currently it is moving from the goal of attaining minimal standards to a model of continuous improvement. In some countries, the accreditation system engages peers (physicians) to survey residency programs. The surveyors are sometimes volunteers, usually engaged in multiple clinical and education activities. Few studies ...

The Joint Commission has revised its processes for rendering Accreditation with Follow-up Survey (AFS) and Preliminary Denial of Accreditation (PDA) decisions. These changes are intended to streamline the post-survey process and expedite the resolution of Requirements for Improvement (RFIs). Effective immediately, the following changes are applicable to any organization that is seeking to renew...

NICE has accredited the process used by the Centre for Health Technology Evaluation at NICE to produce technology appraisals guidance. Accreditation is valid for 5 years from September 2009 and applies to guidance produced since June 2008 using the processes described in NICE's 'The guide to the methods of technology appraisal' (2008). More information on accreditation can be viewed at www.nice...