clinical laboratories by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), The Joint Commission revised several elements of performance (EPs) for the laboratory accreditation program to meet the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA ’88). The Joint Commission’s Board of Commissioners accepted the new and revised EPs in December (effective February 1, 2012) and in February (...

Introduction: According to the International Society for Quality in Healthcare, accreditation is a process which "trained external peer reviewers evaluate healthcare organisation's compliance with pre-established performance standards. Unlike licensure, focuses on continuous improvement strategies and achievement of optimal quality standards, rather than adherence minimal standards intended ass...

A.Wambersie(1), P.M.DeLuca Jr(2), R.S.Caswell(3) and H.G.Menzel(4) (1) Université Catholique de Louvain, 1200 Brussels, Belgium (2) University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA (3) National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899, USA (4) CERN, Geneva, CH International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements (ICRU), 7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 800 Bethesda, Mar...

The development of standards (emerging and established) by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) for audio, image, and video, for both transmission and storage, has led to worldwide activity in developing hardware and software systems and products applicable to a number ...

within its Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) for behavioral health care organizations. The Joint Commission added five new elements of performance (EPs) and two new Notes—and edited an existing EP—to maintain alignment with Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) regulations and guidelines and thus retain its status as a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)–approv...

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