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This is a list of international healthcare accreditation organizations. These organizations are responsible for the accreditation of hospitals and other healtchcare services. The Joint Commission is one of the most widely used accreditation organizations.
Fundamentally healthcare and hospital accreditation is about improving how care is delivered to patients and the quality of the care they receive. Accreditation has been defined as "A self-assessment and external peer assessment process used by health care organisations to accurately assess their level of performance in relation to established standards and to implement ways to continuously ...
This is a list of countries ranked by the quality of healthcare, as published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development . [1] The ranking takes into account various health outcomes, including survival rates for seven types of cancer, as well as for strokes and heart attacks.
The Canada Health Act covers the services of psychiatrists, medical doctors with additional training in psychiatry. In Canada, psychiatrists tend to focus on the treatment of mental illness with medication. [67] However, the Canada Health Act excludes care provided in a "hospital or institution primarily for the mentally disordered."
The CSA Group (formerly the Canadian Standards Association; CSA) is a standards organization which develops standards in 57 areas. CSA publishes standards in print and electronic form, and provides training and advisory services. CSA is composed of representatives from industry, government, and consumer groups.
Approval of standards submitted as National Standards of Canada (NSC); Adoption of relevant policies to support SCC programs and services; and; Approval of budgets and audited financial statements. The SCC has a governing council that oversees the organization and an executive staff that is responsible for the operation of the organization.
The acronym "SMART" stands for Standards-based, Machine-readable, Adaptive, Requirements-based, and Testable, which outlines the structured approach used to translate traditional health guidelines into formats suitable for digital health systems.: [1] The objective of SMART guidelines is to promote adaptation of WHO guidelines while preserving ...
Health Canada (HC; French: Santé Canada, SC) [NB 1] is the department of the Government of Canada responsible for national health policy. The department itself is also responsible for numerous federal health-related agencies, including the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), among others.