background: in a variety of industries, accreditation is recognized as a symbol of quality indicating that the organization meets certain performance standards. in this regard, health records are among the primary documents used by health care facilities to evaluate compliance with the standards set by the accreditation agencies. this study compares the strengths and weaknesses of information m...

Objective: To learn the perceptions of hospital quality managers about the benefits and difficulties that arise from accreditation. Methods: A descriptive, qualitative and exploratory study was developed with five quality managers from hospitals of each of the three levels of national accreditation and one which lost its accreditation. Taped interviews were carried out with the participants, wh...

BACKGROUND An interest in hospital accreditation is growing rapidly among many countries to enhance the quality of health care services. The literature showed a positive association between accreditation and some processes of health care. One of the main factors that influence bed availability is the length of hospital stay (LOS), which is considered as an important indicator of the quality of ...

“Accreditation VS COVID.” This was the subject line of an email that a representative from CEAB-accredited program sent to CEAB Secretariat in Spring 2020. The COVID-19 global pandemic created multiple shifts how engineering programs operated, which necessitated reimagining accreditation (operating same novel environment) could survive and thrive. work provides overview CEAB’s efforts between M...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY  This study examines the association between nursing home accreditation and deficiency citations.  DESIGN AND METHODS  Data originated from a web-based search of The Joint Commission (TJC) accreditation and On-line Survey Certification of Automated Records from 2002 to 2010. Deficiency citations were divided into 4 categories: resident behavior and facility practices, qua...

Peruvian universities by the university law 30220 are required to have their research center obtain licensing and optionally accreditation for educational quality. The study aims propose an innovative model that relates informative of students Systems Engineering Computer Electronics program with accreditation. soft systems methodology Maltese cross, based on systemic approach, were used develo...

Model Verification, Validation and Accreditation (VV&A) is as complex as developing a Modeling and Simulation (M&S) application itself. For the purpose of structuring both Verification and Validation (V&V) activities and V&V results, we introduce a refined V&V process. After identification of the major influence factors on applicable V&V, a conceptual approach for subphase-wise organization of ...

This paper demonstrates how information literacy is a hidden attribute woven throughout CEAB’s recent accreditation criteria. The paper focuses in particular on life-long learning and describes how such a model can be developed and transferred in different engineering programs.