OBJECTIVE In many countries hospitals are undergoing accreditation as mandatory or voluntary measures. It is believed that accreditation positively influence quality of care and patient satisfaction. This survey aims at assessing the relationship between patient satisfaction and accreditation status. DESIGN Between January and May 2007, 4 weeks after their discharge, 78 508 patients from 328 ...

The College of American Pathologists (CAP) offers a suite of laboratory accreditation programs, including one specific to accreditation to the international organization for standardization (ISO) 15189 standard for quality management specific to medical laboratories. CAP leaders offer an overview of ISO 15189 including its components, internal audits, occurrence management, document control, an...

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...

O n July 1, 2014, the second group of programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) entered the Next Accreditation System (NAS), and all programs are now functioning under the principles of NAS, which include continuous accreditation via annual reviews of data, lengthening the interval between scheduled accreditation visits, and a focus on educational o...

There is a widespread and increasing tendency to develop hospital performance indicators in the field of accreditation/certification system and quality benchmarking. The aim of this study was to identify the relationship between accreditation and quality indicators used in hospital care services. A systematic review of literature was carried out. The search used the data base of MEDLINE in the ...

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...