Background: Hospital accreditation is a systematic external evaluation of a hospital’s structures, processes and results by an independent professional accreditation body using pre-established optimum standards. This study aimed to evaluate the hospital accreditation system. Methods: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out between November 2015 and February 2016 using a ques...

I n medicine, good professional training and education are pivotal, and these include initial medical studies and, even more importantly, continuing medical education (CME). Learning on the job is an important and indisputable part of continuing medical education but, in itself, it is not enough. Attending meetings, reading journals and books, seeking expert advice and, in recent years, getting...

BACKGROUND Our aim was to evaluate if a recently introduced TOF PET system with digital photon counting technology (Philips Healthcare), potentially providing an improved image quality over analogue systems, can fulfil EANM research Ltd (EARL) accreditation specifications for tumour imaging with FDG-PET/CT. FINDINGS We have performed a phantom study on a digital TOF PET system using a NEMA NU...

introduction: the scientific, technological and economic development of a society is closely related to its public health. therefore; improvement of health service quality along with increasing the number of health facilities is one of the main concerns of health care authorities in developed countries. this study was designed to compare accreditation models of health care organizations in euro...

This study examined how health information management (HIM) educational programs can use the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Model (MBNQAM) educational criteria to meet the self-assessment requirement for Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM) accreditation. An existing instrument, Quantum Performance Group's Organizational Asses...