Background and Objective: Hospitals play an important role in protecting the health and survival of people during disasters. Despite the development of risk management programs worldwide in recent years, hospital preparedness in disasters is low and one reason for that is the lack of hospital standards for disaster preparedness. This study aims to develop hospital accreditation standards for ho...

background: the first stage of the accreditation, process as the most important way of assurance and improvement of the quality of high education process is collection of standards. to describe present and desirable quality of nursing and midwifery postgraduate education via accreditation process in iran, we decided to compile applicable standards in this field, using available international st...

Sweet • Medical education Higher education accreditation is rapidly shifting from structure and process evaluations to outcome measurement. As educators are frequently asked to look at their outcomes, so too are the educators’ accreditors. In its current regulations, the United States Department of Education (USDE) requires its recognized accreditors to look at student achievement. The AOA Bure...

BACKGROUND Accreditation of education is very important for maintaining and improving education quality. With the development of modern dental education, more and more attention is being paid to accreditation of dental education in China. Current accreditation of dental education in China is called "dental education evaluation". By using a systematic review, this paper aims to provide the gener...

This study aims to identify the benefits of using electronic health records (EHR) for client safety in residential aged care (RAC) homes. The aged care accreditation reports published between 27 April 2011 and 3 December 2013 were downloaded and analysed. It could be seen from these reports that only 1,031(37.45%) RAC homes in Australia had adopted an EHR system by 2013. 13 RAC homes failed one...

BACKGROUND Internationally-accredited laboratories are recognised for their superior test reliability, operational performance, quality management and competence. In a bid to meet international quality standards, the Mozambique National Institute of Health enrolled the National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory (NTRL) in a continuous quality improvement process towards ISO 15189 accreditation. ...

BACKGROUND Given the trend toward eliminating reimbursement for "never events," hospital administrators are challenged to implement practices designed to prevent their occurrence. Little evidence exists, however, that patient safety practices, as evaluated using accreditation criteria, are related to the achievement of patient safety outcomes. PURPOSE The aim of this study was to examine the ...

accreditation survey of al-kindy teaching hospital during the months of february–may 2011 was performed as part of its technical assistance services to the management of the hospital. the hospital had formed an accreditation committee in october 2010 and began the process of self-assessment and implementation of the 2010 iraqi national accreditation standards for hospitals. as the hospital near...

AANA Journal  December 2012  Vol. 80, No. 6 471 T he accreditation program for nurse anesthesia was initiated in 1952 by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA). The accreditation function was transferred to the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs/Schools in 1975 in response to a major revision of the US Office of Education criteria. Since 1975, the...

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...