Researching the impact of accreditation on individual and organisational performance is an important undertaking.
The introduction of individual accreditation will be followed by accreditation of echocardiography laboratories in the near future.
Although only one of the 18 participating practices chose to undertake the PPDP process without the assistance of an external facilitator, this could change if PPDPs become a recognised method of obtaining organisational accreditation and individual revalidation.
Patient safety curricular innovation depends on the interests of individual faculty members and the leveraging of accreditation and regulatory requirements.
Milestones are used both to assess the competence of individual residents, as well as to support the accreditation of residency programs [ 1].
Financial incentives can directly influence the views of individual health professionals regarding the benefits, relative to costs, of accreditation programs.
Award of full accreditation status is perceived in many industries, including health, as a valid reflection of individual and organisational performance.
However, the few evaluations of accreditation's impacts on healthcare organisations provide limited information regarding the constituent elements of individual programs [ 9], such as standards and surveying methods.
Accreditation of ambassadors or other chiefs of mission is handled in accordance with internationally accepted procedures, but appointment of both ambassadors and other officers follows the constitutional practice of individual states.
Half a million people have been checked as part of the accreditation process, which MI5 has helped with, and it is thought a number of individuals have been denied accreditation based on national security checks.
Accreditation of such professional schools officially began in 2003.
