It won't currently, she explains, lead to formal accreditation – but then many professional development courses don't.
Respondents from Kenya and Uganda reported a number of laboratories accredited to international standards and Tanzania is currently engaged in a programme designed to lead to laboratory accreditation.
The training programme was approved by the Norwegian Medical Association as part of the training that leads to the accreditation or the continued accreditation of specialists in general medicine.
If up to 80% of patients in RACF are in acute or chronic pain, 4 we need to be thinking about pain at least 80% of the time, not only at admission, during the lead-up to accreditation, or at 12-monthly review.
However, the resulting overcrowding in the public health facilities from increased membership led to the accreditation of some private facilities to provide care to registered members.
The study led to the accreditation of sub-health posts as medical abortion service sites for the first time in the country and demonstrated that sub-health posts with trained auxiliary nurse midwives and nurses can provide medical abortion services safely and effectively.
Strategies are as a result required to reinforce the way accreditation might lead to improved quality of care.
In the reviewed frameworks, benchmarking is expected to lead to improvements through internal mechanisms like accreditation and continuing medical education [ 47, 84].
The Washington Accord is an excellent example of how an accreditation process that focuses on student learning outcomes can lead to the mutual recognition of accredited engineering degree programs worldwide.
Use of A-EBPs in LHDs is important because these practices have been shown to be effective in boosting performance, contributing to accreditation efforts, and may ultimately lead to improved health of the population [ 9, 10].
