Health Care

Accreditation

Certification as complying with a standard set by non-governmental organizations, applied for by institutions, programs, and facilities on a voluntary basis.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Abstract

Certification as complying with a standard set by non-governmental organizations, applied for by institutions, programs, and facilities on a voluntary basis.

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1 entry terms
  • Accreditations

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Aspects Covered

10 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

by the profession; do not confuse with LICENSURE (by the state)

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66(64)

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  1. N03w.706.110w.070w
  2. N05.700.200w.100w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Accreditation. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000068. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000068
  2. Accreditation. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accreditation
  3. Accreditation. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q705899