INTRODUCTION The objective of this study was to analyse Danish general practitioners' (GPs) a priori attitudes and expectations towards a nationwide mandatory accreditation programme. METHODS This study is based on a nationwide electronic survey comprising all Danish GPs (n = 3,403). RESULTS A total of 1,906 (56%) GPs completed the questionnaire. In all, 861 (45%) had a negative attitude to...

Accreditation is widely considered to be a vital tool for quality assurance in higher education; however, there disagreement the academic community on intended benefits of accreditation. Preparing accreditation requires extensive financial and human resources complete required documentation. All agencies require improvements institutional infrastructure, enhanced student support, appropriate le...

BACKGROUND Laboratory services are essential at all stages of the tuberculosis care cascade, from diagnosis and drug resistance testing to monitoring response to treatment. Enabling access to quality services is a challenge in low-resource settings. Implementation of a strong quality management system (QMS) and laboratory accreditation are key to improving patient care. OBJECTIVES The study o...

PURPOSE The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine (RRC-IM) evaluate internal medicine residency programs using a list of 301 program requirements. The authors investigated which requirements, program demographics, and site-visitor characteristics were the strongest predictors of accreditation. METHOD The authors surveyed ...

The politics and purpose of health care accreditation programmes around the world have changed radically from the original models of North America 50 years ago. Then they were hospitalfocused, profession-driven, voluntary, self-financing and essentially non-governmental. The 1990s saw a rapid growth of programmes with an increasing emphasis on primary care, networks, health systems and regulati...

INTRODUCTION To determine if an established programme is achieving desired goals and objectives, in other words being effective, health-care policy makers need to recognise and cope with its challenges. This paper made an effort to pinpoint the main difficulties which appear on the way to successful implementation of the Iranian hospital accreditation programme, from perspective of hospitals me...

CONFLICT OF INTEREST NONE DECLARED. SUMMARY Agency for Quality and Accreditation of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (AKAZ) has developed computer based chronic disease register based on the accreditation standards in order to facilitate maintenance of chronic disease registers in the absence of electronic health records, and to speed up and simplify calculation for over 70 clinical indic...

Training, certification and accreditation are concepts that are used in almost all aspects of professional life. This paper reviews current initiatives in Forensic Computing training and certification in Australia and the effect of this on National Accreditation processes.

The purpose of this article is to outline the underlying assumptions, principles and processes of a continuous quality improvement approach which underpins the accreditation of general practice offered by Australian General Practice Accreditation Limited.

OBJECTIVES To assess the costs of hospital accreditation in Australia. DESIGN Mixed methods design incorporating: stakeholder analysis; survey design and implementation; activity-based costs analysis; and expert panel review. SETTING Acute care hospitals accredited by the Australian Council for Health Care Standards. PARTICIPANTS Six acute public hospitals across four States. RESULTS Ac...