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Descriptor English: Accreditation
Descriptor Spanish: Acreditación
Descriptor acreditación
Scope note: Certificación solicitada de manera voluntaria por instituciones, programas e instalaciones del cumplimiento de un conjunto de normas fijadas por organizaciones no gubernamentales.
Descriptor Portuguese: Acreditação
Descriptor French: Agrément
Entry term(s): Accreditations
Tree number(s): N03.706.110.070
N05.700.200.100
SP9.242.201.088
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000068
Scope note: Certification as complying with a standard set by non-governmental organizations, applied for by institutions, programs, and facilities on a voluntary basis.
Annotation: by the profession; do not confuse with LICENSURE (by the state)
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Public MeSH Note: 66
History Note: 66(64)
Related: Certification MeSH
Licensure MeSH
DeCS ID: 72
Unique ID: D000068
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1994/06/03
Accreditation - Preferred
Concept UI M0000097
Scope note Certification as complying with a standard set by non-governmental organizations, applied for by institutions, programs, and facilities on a voluntary basis.
Preferred term Accreditation
Entry term(s) Accreditations



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