Biometric Identity Assurance Services, or BIAS, is a cooperative standards project between the International Organization for Standardization / International Electrotechnical Commission Joint Technical Committee 1 Subcommittee SC 37 (ISO [8]/IEC JTC 1 SC 37) and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) BIAS Technical Committee (TC). BIAS originated as a c...

2. At its Fourteenth Session (2013), the Commission endorsed the Genebank Standards for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, contained in this document. The Genebank Standards were originally endorsed by the Commission in 1993. In 2009, the Commission requested FAO to revise the Genebank Standards in cooperation with the relevant international organizations to ensure up-to-date con...

some physicochemical parameters of honey have been introduced by the international honey commission to evaluate its quality and origin but processes such as heating and filtering can affect these parameters. in traditional iranian medicine, deslagging process involves boiling honey in an equal volume of water and removing the slag formed during process. the aim of this study was to determine th...

Hospitals have made slow progress in meeting the Institute of Medicine's patient safety goals, and implementation of safety systems has been inconsistent. The next logical question is this: What organizational characteristics predict greater implementation of patient safety systems, in terms of both extent of systems and progress over time? To answer this question, a survey was administered to ...

Background Strict adherence to the established standards is expected in the communication of abnormal laboratory results between the laboratory and the ward. Upon receiving abnormal laboratory results, the laboratory personnel will phone and inform the ward about the results. The receiver will take the necessary actions and then transfer the abnormal results into the patient’s charts. In a thre...

INTRODUCTION Despite thousands of years from creation of medical knowledge, it not much passes from founding the health care systems. Accreditation is an effective mechanism for performance evaluation, quality enhancement, and the safety of health care systems. This study was conducted to assess the results of emergency department (ED) accreditation in Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital, Tehran, Iran, ...

The implementation of quality management systems (QMSs) is a world-wide phenomenon, particularly in organisations in developing countries. which have used different QMSs to improve the quality of their goods and services. loint Commission International (lCI) is an international body issuing healthcare standards following the principles of Total Quality Management to improve quality and patient ...