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JACIE accreditation from the perspective of an accredited centre

Bone Marrow Transplantation volume 52, page 1352 (2017)Cite this article

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We read with interest the article 'JACIE accreditation for blood and marrow transplantation: past, present and future directions of an international model for healthcare quality improvement' published in the March 2017 issue of Bone Marrow Transplantation. This manuscript makes future inferences through presenting an assessment about quality standards for blood and bone marrow transplantation, and also discusses the benefits of international quality standards on clinical and laboratory practice, and potential disadvantages.1

The leaders of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) and transplant centres expect that accreditation by the Joint Accreditation Committee: International Society for Cellular Therapy and EBMT (or JACIE for short) will improve communication between transplant centres, provide a uniform approach for donor safety and, most importantly, enable the transplant teams to improve.1, 2, 3 Several studies have reported the influence of JACIE accreditation on the prolongation of lifespan and reduction of transplant-related mortality.2, 3 However, it is not clear how the JACIE-accredited centres feel about this and which objective benefits are important. While efforts for JACIE accreditation are overwhelmingly in high-income economies in Europe, transplant activity is gradually increasing outside these countries.4 It is important to recognize that quality improvement and accreditation is not inhibitory to the blood and marrow transplantation activities in developing economies so that the professionals in this field are willing for accreditation. Supporting this opinion, we aimed to present the objective benefits our re-accredited centre (T 644) showing the perspective of an accredited centre. We suggest that such data are an important motivator for centres to become accredited.

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  1. Department of Hematology and Adana Adult Bone Marrow Transplantation Centre, University of Baskent, Ankara, Turkey

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  2. Department of Physiology and Adana Adult Bone Marrow Transplantation Centre, University of Baskent, Ankara, Turkey

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Boga, C., Kozanoglu, I. JACIE accreditation from the perspective of an accredited centre. Bone Marrow Transplant 52, 1352 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2017.149

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