the “Quality System Assessment for Nonwaived Testing” (QSA) chapter of the Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Laboratory and Point-of-Care Testing (CAMLAB) has been changed. The Joint Commission had added Note 2 to the Rationale for Standard QSA.02.04.01 to communicate its expectations during the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Individualized Quality Control Plan (IQCP) educa...

Echocardiography has become the primary imaging tool in the diagnosis and assessment of congenital and acquired heart disease in infants, children, and adolescents. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is an ideal tool for cardiac assessment, as it is noninvasive, portable, and efficacious in providing detailed anatomic, hemodynamic, and physiologic information about the pediatric heart. Recomm...

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. Accreditation has an important role in improving the quality, safety, effectiveness and efficiency of hospital services. This study aimed to examine the effects of hospital accreditation program ...

The study examines the impact, added value and relevance of accreditation as a way assuring quality at an institution higher learning in field architecture. qualitative impact was examined through survey presented to students, teachers employers. A quantitative assessment carried out by reviewing academic indicators, such pass rate or weighted average per year, before after processes. private e...

Este trabajo ofrece un análisis de la dialéctica los conceptos placer (plaisir) y goce (jouissance) en trayectoria Roland Barthes. Desgarrado entre estos dos términos que debían activarse el texto, toda su teoría dependía una neutra ellos mostrara afinidad mandarinato lectura, dejara papel para revolución inaudita a jouissance. El estudio muestra cómo juego conduce posición difícil mantener, lo...

INTRODUCTION This pilot study aimed to investigate the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) and compliance to the code of conduct (rules defined in institutional, governmental and professional guidelines) among laboratory technicians in Croatian medical laboratories. In addition, we explored the differences in compliance between participants of different age groups, laboratory ownership a...

The first lecture will present pictorial semiotics within the framework of general semiotic theory. It will construe semiotics as a particular point of view taken on everything which is human or, more generally, endowed with life, rather than simply the continuation of the mixed or separate doctrines due to Saussure and Peirce. The historical part will describe briefly the development of pictor...

Background and Aim: Hospital accreditation is “an external evaluation of a hospital’s structures, processes, outputs and outcomes by an independent professional accreditation body using pre-established optimum standards”. Accreditation is a strategy for ensuring the quality and, safety of hospital services. An accreditation program’s efficacy depends on the validity of its governance, methods, ...