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Trade group's "accreditation" could confuse medical tourists
American Medical News , 10/06/08

O'Reilly KB et al. - The Medical Tourism Assn. in July launched a program to identify medical travel agencies that follow industry best practices. The group initially described its effort as an "accreditation program" to "help patients, employers and insurance companies identify which hospitals have the highest quality of care and the right processes and procedures in place to ensure patient safety during their entire patient experience." But experts said accreditation is a term with a particular meaning in the world of international health care quality and should not be used lightly. Accreditation organizations say their goal is to address international medical travelers' quality concerns by holding hospitals to standards that transcend national boundaries.

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