In the early 70s, the leadership of Perfusion Education, American Society of Extra-Corporeal Technology (AmSECT), and the American Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion (ABCP) recognized the need to move from OJT Training of perfusionists to schools of Perfusion in order to offer a formal education that would meet the growing need for perfusionists in the United States. With that recognition came c...

OBJECTIVE Quantitative studies have shown the various benefits for having accreditation in hospitals. However, neither of these explored the general conditions before applying for an accreditation. To close this gap, this study aimed to investigate the possible association between joining an accreditation programme with various hospital characteristics. DESIGN A cross-sectional study was impl...

INTRODUCTION Shifting HIV treatment tasks from physicians to nurses and midwives is essential to scaling-up HIV services in sub-Saharan Africa. Updating nursing and midwifery regulations to include task shifting and pre-service education reform can help facilitate reaching new HIV targets. Donor-supported initiatives to update nursing and midwifery regulations are increasing. However, there are...

The Department of Health & Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved the continuation of deeming authority for The Joint Commission’s hospital accreditation program through July 15, 2014. The CMS designation means that hospitals accredited by The Joint Commission may choose to be “deemed” as meeting Medicare and Medicaid certification requirements. CMS found ...

Our response is based on our knowledge and understanding of like arrangements in Australia and in other countries and over ten tears experience of the aged care accreditation scheme in Australia as the company appointed as the accreditation body under the Aged Care Act 1997. It is also based on a body of knowledge built through feedback surveys from approved providers and their staff, thousands...

BACKGROUND As efforts to integrate patient safety into health professional curricula increase, there is growing recognition that the rate of curricular change is very slow, and there is a shortage of research that addresses critical perspectives of faculty who are on the 'front-lines' of curricular innovation. This study reports on medical, nursing and pharmacy teaching faculty perspectives abo...

The undergraduate Information Systems program of the Department of Informatics, University of Pretoria recently obtained ABET accreditation. Having an accredited program and keeping it accredited, has quite a few implications on the processes and structure of the department. However, the paper will mainly focus on the difficulties surrounding getting a non-US IS program accredited by a US based...

the year 2000 marked the official launch of the accreditation system for medical education. The first accred-itation project covered 41 medical schools from 2000 to 2004. During the first project, 32 schools received full accredita-tion, while 9 schools received conditional accreditation since they were new medical schools. Beginning in 2007, the second round of accreditation began, and it will...

CONFLICT OF INTEREST NONE DECLARED. INTRODUCTION Agency for healthcare quality and accreditation in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (AKAZ) is authorized body in the field of healthcare quality and safety improvement and accreditation of healthcare institutions. Beside accreditation standards for hospitals and primary health care centers, AKAZ has also developed accreditation standards fo...

Employers are increasingly expressing concern that the majority of recent graduates lack professional skills. In addition, it is unknown whether students pursuing accounting degrees in professionally accredited institutions more financially savvy than those non-accredited institutions. 1582 undergraduate at University KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Mangosuthu Technology (MUT), and Durban (DUT) were surv...