Concept Of Accreditation Research Articles

The Social Value of Professional Accreditation

In speaking to this topic, it would be simple and perhaps expedient to say that accreditation in a professional field has social value because it serves to protect society. It ostensibly protects society from mediocrity in the education process, and it protects students from being hoodwinked or fleeced. Accreditation protects the profession itself from being downgraded by the entry of ill-prepared practitioners. All of these things are part and parcel of the whole concept of accreditation, but to understand fully the social value of professional accreditation, one must place the concept within the matrix of our national background and also within the context of today's problems. One of the fundamental and basic traditions of this nation has been the freedom of higher education from political interference and dictation. Largely because of this tradition of freedom of education, accreditation by nongovernmental agencies has developed in the United States. This situation is

How Does ISO 15189 Laboratory Accreditation Support the Delivery of Healthcare in Ethiopia? A Systematic Review.

Assessing quality by considering input, process and output level quality variables is important to ensure improved quality services. Designing and execution of an effective quality management system are aimed for the purpose of quality improvement, error reduction and associated risks. Therefore, this review is designed to assess the value of accreditation on the performance of healthcare institutions in ensuring quality improvement interventions. Moreover, this review presents important concepts of accreditation and the aspects of quality. Published articles were downloaded using EndNote® application software program from PubMed (NML) database, Web of Sciences (TS) and Google Scholar. From a total of 883 downloaded full-text published materials, only 28 journals and 1 report issued from 2010 to 2017 were used for the development of this review. The overall quality of healthcare services in developing countries was error-prone and suffered from limitations. These could be associated with wrong interventions and increased risks. Accreditation schemes have been implemented to provide quality care and ensure safety. Evaluation feedback induces interventions aimed at quality improvement and ensures better management systems, good process design, wise resource utilization, meeting patients' need and increased satisfaction. Hence, stakeholders must be engaged in the provision of improve quality patient care and reduce associated risks. Hence, giving special quality improvement attention helps to improve quality healthcare services.