The Zambian Medical Council has been designated to oversee the process, receiving a minimal budget for overseeing and facilitating the accreditation process, by use of existing funds for monitoring and evaluation [interview, national level, November 2008].
The conceptual model presented in Figure 1 provides a heuristic device highlighting how each of the enabling factors and themes identified in this study coalesce to facilitate effective implementation of accreditation programs.
Standardization across centers has been facilitated via voluntary accreditation implemented by Foundation for the Accreditation of Cell Therapy.
Accreditation processes can facilitate or stifle the use of models such as that proposed in this paper because they are important drivers for course content and delivery in professional degrees such as engineering.
Club staff will be trained in elements of the accreditation programme to facilitate club implementation of the intervention.
The findings will be formulated to facilitate uptake by policy and accreditation agency professionals, researchers and academics, and consumers, nationally and internationally.
Meanwhile, accreditation and professional organizations facilitate provider and payer quality improvement efforts by offering quality measurement and tracking initiatives.
An example of such a ready to use suggestion is: designate one responsible team member, to facilitate the implementation of a practice accreditation program.
Having multiple sources of information helps facilitate comprehensive assessment, and a valid and acceptable accreditation visit method, as used in the Dutch national accreditation program, helps to provide reliable information, follow up over time and background data for all sorts of research.
The increasing emphasis on quality and efficiency will continue to compel the medical profession to identify appropriate quality measures to facilitate quality improvement efforts and to guide accreditation, credentialing, and reimbursement.
