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...

Background Lebanon is an upper-middle income country with 4.5 million inhabitants (as well as more than 1.2 million refugees) and total health expenditures at 7.3% of the Gross Domestic Product. Lebanon has a mixed public and private healthcare sector. The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) functions as ‘insurer of last resort’ for approximately 54% of the population that would otherwise lack hos...

Objective To examine the association between compliance with consecutive cycles of accreditation and patient-related outcomes. Design A Danish nationwide population-based study from 2012 to 2015. Setting In-patients admitted with one of the 80 diagnoses at public, non-psychiatric hospitals. Participants In-patients admitted with one of 80 primary diagnoses which accounted for 80% of all d...

Transitions of care leave patients vulnerable to the unintentional discontinuation of medications with proven efficacy for treating chronic diseases. Older adults residing in nursing homes may be especially susceptible to this preventable adverse event. The effect of large-scale policy changes on improving this practice is unknown.The objective of this study was to analyze the effect of a natio...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether performance measures improve more in accredited hospitals than in non-accredited hospital. DESIGN AND SETTING A historical follow-up study was performed using process of care data from all public Danish hospitals in order to examine the development over time in performance measures according to participation in accreditation programs. PARTICIPANTS All patients a...

The Diploma in Hospital Infection Control (DipHIC) was established by the Hospital Infection Society, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Public Health Laboratory Service (now the Health Protection Agency) in 1997. We outline important changes to the assessment of eligibility for the DipHIC by accreditation of prior experiental learning, provide a web link to examples of refl...

The concept of this book is taken from the feature called, “Ask the Joint Commission,” in the journal, Hospital Pharmacy, written by Darryl Rich, a pharmacist from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, who is an expert on this topic. The same question and answer format is used in Ask the Joint Commission: Understanding JCAHO Requirements for Hospital Pharmacies, whi...

Introduction. Accreditation has a long antecedence in western countries educational systems and its history of implementation is more than a century in a country such as United States of America. In European countries, also different activities have been implied throughout the accreditation and its implementation has become an essential. Now, in our country the experts also think of the accredi...