In hospitals, ethics consultations and committees were a product of the 1970s in the United States of America (US). The US administration encouraged their development particularly when the influential 1983 report of the President’s Commission for the study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, entitled Deciding to Forgo Life-Sustaining Treatment, gave a signifi...

ENSURING quality care in vascular and interventional radiology is the primary goal of the SIR Standards of Practice Committee. To achieve this goal, the Committee has previously defined the qualifications of physicians performing the procedures and the facilities that are required for safe diagnostic and interventional procedures. The next focus is on the assessment of quality care; this is don...

1. Distinguish between the voluntary accreditation agencies in terms of their scope of hospital and managed care accreditation services. 2. Assess the impact of accreditation changes and key initiatives (in the late 1980s and early 1990s) on the evolution of continuous quality improvement and outcomes management. 3. Assess how the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (J...

BACKGROUND Recent initiatives have focused on reducing door-to-balloon (DTB) times among patients with acute myocardial infarction undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention. However, DTB time is only one of several important AMI care processes. It is unclear whether quality efforts targeted to a single process will facilitate concomitant improvement in other quality measures and out...

BACKGROUND This systematic review seeks to define the general advantages and disadvan-tages of accreditation programs to assist in choosing the most appropriate approach. METHOD Systematic search of SID, Ovid Medline & PubMed databases was conducted by the keywords of accreditation, hospital, medical practice, clinic, accreditation models, health care and Persian meanings. From 2379 initial a...

Review the stated learning objectives of the CME articles and determine if these objectives match your individual learning needs. 2. Read the articles carefully. Do not neglect the tables and other illustrative materials, as they have been selected to enhance your knowledge and understanding. 3. The following quiz questions have been designed to provide a useful link between the CME articles in...

Introduction: Medical tourism is one of the competitive and income industries in world and has the ability to attract tourists in the health sector and international markets are totally dependent on international accreditation. This study has been done to evaluate the capabilities of active public and private hospitals in Shiraz regarding attraction of tourists’ base on accredi...

Policy initiatives on many fronts have converged to improve patient safety. A major tension that characterizes this process is the attempt to achieve a balance between learning and control in complex systems with technical, social, and organizational components. Efforts to improve learning are marked by better information flow, discovery, flexibility in thinking, embracing of failures as learni...

According to Dictionary.com (2011), abandon is defined as “to leave completely and finally.” A legal definition clarifies what abandonment means in the health care setting: “withdrawal from treatment of a patient without giving reasonable notice or providing a competent replacement” (USLegal.com, n.d.). One should note that according to this second definition, a health care professional can ind...