The Joint Commission’s Accreditation Committee approved the 2014 accreditation and certification decision rules for all accreditation and certification programs. The revised accreditation decision rules are effective for surveys as of January 1, 2014, while the revised certification decision rules are effective immediately. Revisions are shown in the boxes on pages 3–7 for accreditation program...

Accreditation, as an approach to quality assurance and improvement, has a hundred-year history in the United States. Other countries have started to establish such systems in the past twenty years. Recently, we have witnessed numerous discussions and some practical steps toward establishing accreditation systems in Iran. A major practical challenge for such newer accreditation systems is that...

Six simulation professionals present their views on the directions that they believe that verification, validation, and accreditation research should take. Two of the six are active verification, validation, and accreditation researchers from academia, two develop industry simulation models, and two work in verification, validation, and accreditation of military simulation models. A number of a...

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...

This article has been supported by the Vice-rectorate for Digital Resources and Documentation (Vicerrectorado de Recursos Digitales y Documentacion) Vice-Rectorate Studies, Quality Accreditation Estudios, Calidad Acreditacion) under Call Learning + Teaching (Convocatoria Aprendizaje Docencia (A+D 2019)) Project Code: A-157. The authors would like to acknowledge support of Institute Educational ...

accreditation is an assessment tools of health systems especially hospitals, that is a top priority of the ministry of health and medical education in iran but other countries that have implemented this program faced challenges. since the accreditation program is in the initial stages of implementation in iran, this study review other studies to find probable downsides of the program to extract...