Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's internal medicine residency program was admitted to the new Education Innovation Project accreditation pathway of the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education to begin in July 2006. The authors restructured the inpatient medical service to create clinical microsystems in which residents practice throughout residency. Program leadership then mand...

BACKGROUND In developing countries, accreditation is increasingly being used as a tool for government regulation to guarantee quality of care. Although Lebanon is the first country in the East Mediterranean Region to develop and implement accreditation standards, little is known yet on its impact on quality of care. OBJECTIVE To assess the perceived impact of accreditation on quality of care ...

Achieving high levels of quality in healthcare, which could be measurable, is increasingly important at present and is dictated by the radical changes of the welfare system imposed today by the well known economic constraints. However, even in the ongoing legislation, the practices concerning the verification and review of the quality of health care has had a major impact in the galaxy of Healt...

This session will provide the participants with an overview of the ABET, Inc. accreditation process. This tutorial includes: • An overview of the Information Systems Criteria, • The process of information systems accreditation from ABET's Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC) perspective. • A review of the process of planning and preparing for the accreditation team visit, • The experience o...

Background and Aims: Improving the Quality Management System (QMS) of clinical laboratories and achieving accreditation are important in health care delivery. It can be achieved by implementing the World Health Organizaton Stepwise Laboratory Improvement Process Towards Accreditation (SLIPTA). The SLIPTA program was introduced to the Bamenda Regional Hospital (BRHL) in 2010. Our objectives were...

The Accreditation Committee of the Joint Commission’s Board of Commissioners approved a revision to the “Inclusion of Physician Practices in Survey” policy in “The Accreditation Process (ACC)” chapter of the comprehensive accreditation manuals for hospitals and critical access hospitals. Previously, Joint Commission policy required that a physician practice be included in the hospital’s survey ...

As many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) pursue health care reforms in order to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), development of national accreditation systems has become an increasingly common quality-enhancing strategy endorsed by payers, including Ministries of Health. This article describes the major considerations for health system leaders in developing and implementing a su...

I late 2011, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) announced proposed changes to their Common Program Requirements, which are requirements that must be met by all ACGME residency and fellowship programs regardless of specialty. The proposed changes would have limited the ability of osteopathic physicians with graduate medical education (GME) training through a program...