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Certification Requirements (certification + requirement)
Selected AbstractsPatient Safety: A Curriculum for Teaching Patient Safety in Emergency MedicineACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, Issue 1 2003Karen S. Cosby MD Abstract The last decade has witnessed a growing awareness of medical error and the inadequacies of our health care delivery systems. The Harvard Practice Study and subsequent Institute of Medicine Reports brought national attention to long-overlooked problems with health care quality and patient safety. The Committee on Quality of Health Care in America challenged professional societies to develop curriculums on patient safety and adopt patient safety teaching into their training and certification requirements. The Patient Safety Task Force of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) was charged with that mission. The curriculum presented here offers an approach to teaching patient safety in emergency medicine. [source] Methods: Retrospective hospital-based searches for cases of acute flaccid paralysisAUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, Issue 1 2002R.M. D'Souza Objective: Australia had to demonstrate adequate acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance by achieving a rate of one per 100,000 in children under the age of 15 to fulfil one of the requirements of the Regional Commission for the Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication to be declared polio free. To increase the ascertainment rate of AFP cases, a hospital search was conducted to identify cases not reported to the active AFP surveillance. Methods: A computerised search of hospital admissions in New South Wales (NSW) and Western Australia (WA) on ICD-9 codes of Guillain Barré Syndrome (GBS), unspecified encephalitis, poliomyelitis, vaccine-associated paralytic polio (VAPP) and flaccid paralysis was conducted for the period 1995,98. Medical records of cases that were not reported to the active surveillance were reviewed in three hospitals of NSW and two hospitals in WA. Results: Twenty additional cases recorded as GBS and five as transverse myelitis (TM) were identified through the searches, which increased the average four-year AFP rate from 1.0 to 1.4 per 100,000 in children under the age of 15 years in these two states and the overall AFP rate in Australia increased from 0.78 to 1.14. There were no cases of polio or VAPP found. Nine cases of GBS and five of TM reported to the active AFP surveillance were not found in the hospital searches. Conclusion: A combination of active surveillance and hospital-based searches increased the investigated AFP rate, which fulfilled one of the certification requirements for Australia to be certified polio free. Implications: Until global certification is achieved, AFP surveillance needs to be improved to identify cases of importation of wild poliovirus. [source] The relationship between guardian certification requirements and guardian sanctioning: a research issue in elder law and policyBEHAVIORAL SCIENCES & THE LAW, Issue 5 2007LL.M., Winsor C. Schmidt J.D. This study investigated the relationship between guardian certification requirements and guardian sanctioning in the state of Washington. A total of 377 files were examined. Findings show that 52.4% of guardians with an undergraduate degree or higher education are likely to be sanctioned compared with 42.2% with an Associate of Arts (AA) or Technical (Tech) degree, and 36.9% with a high school diploma (HS) or equivalency (GED). Guardians with an undergraduate or higher education are 1.88 times more likely to be sanctioned compared with GED or HS graduates (p,<,0.05). However, 83.3% of GED or HS graduates are likely to have more severe sanctions compared with 76.4% undergraduate or higher education, and 47.7% with an AA or Tech degree, respectively. Guardians with an AA or Tech degree are 0.28 times less likely to have more severe sanctions than guardians with an undergraduate degree or higher education (p,<,0.01). The results are discussed with respect to guardian registration, licensing, certification and quality; licensing and regulation of other professions; the limitations of the study; and the need for further research. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Sustainability certification of bioethanol: how is it perceived by Brazilian stakeholders?BIOFUELS, BIOPRODUCTS AND BIOREFINING, Issue 4 2010David A. Huertas Abstract This paper investigates whether initiatives for sustainability certification of Brazilian ethanol can be expected to stimulate a change among producers toward more sustainable production , and, if so, what those changes would likely be. Connected to this, several questions are raised including whether producers might prefer to target other markets with less stringent demands, and if certification might lead to structural changes in the sector because producers who lack the capacity to meet the new requirements cannot remain competitive. The analysis of interviews with a diverse group of stakeholders under the guidance of the Technological Innovation Systems framework allowed us identify different actions taken by the Brazilian sugarcane ethanol sector in response to requirements of sustainability. The interviewees agreed that sustainability certification is an important element for the expansion of biofuel production in Brazil. Brazilian stakeholders have created a platform for more competitive sustainable production and have initiated relevant processes in response to the development connected to sustainability certification. Yet, the certification activities have had a limited impact in terms of the number of involved stakeholders. But interview responses indicate that the sector may adapt to new certification requirements rather than leave markets where such requirements become established. Structural changes can be expected if certification requirements as they exist in many initiatives are introduced in unflexible ways. The social importance of the ethanol industry is large in Brazil and some adjustments for certification may be required. The paper concludes by suggesting some actions for the industry. Copyright © 2010 Society of Chemical Industry and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd [source] | ||||||||||