What's the difference between accredit and certify?

Accredit


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.
  • (v. t.) To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.
  • (v. t.) To believe; to credit; to put trust in.
  • (v. t.) To credit; to vouch for or consider (some one) as doing something, or (something) as belonging to some one.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There, the US Joint Commission, an independent, non-profit organisation that accredits healthcare organisations and programmes has issued a standard on “behaviours that undermine a culture of safety” to tackle “intimidating and disruptive behaviour at work”.
  • (2) When accreditation is viewed and administered appropriately, it is an opportunity for self-improvement and a tool for quality assurance.
  • (3) 19 August Consultation on changes to FIT accreditation closes.
  • (4) The present situation is described, with specific reference to faculty, curriculum, and accreditation issues.
  • (5) Our plan is to have 200 Pearl accredited homes by the end of 2016 to help meet the UK's growing need for specialist dementia care centres with specially trained staff.
  • (6) Residency programs supply institutional pharmacy with mature, highly skilled clinical and managerial practitioners, and ASHP's accreditation process ensures the programs' quality.
  • (7) The initial QA program, implemented in 1984, was based on 25 specific criteria and on the periodic evaluation process that was stressed by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals at that time.
  • (8) The program is based on accreditation of flocks that have passed two successive serological tests with an interval of six months between and post-accreditation tests every 12 months.
  • (9) We now have 67 Pearl accredited homes with a further 70 working through the pathway to achieve accreditation.
  • (10) He recommended that skilled police officers be paid up to £2,000 more than they are now, and said a new expertise and professional accreditation allowance of £1,200 would be introduced for most detectives, firearms, public order and neighbourhood policing teams.
  • (11) She had been accredited to cover the Games as a journalist.
  • (12) The middle term attracts the most scepticism, based on the presumption that just because your field isn't professionally accredited, you do not know anything and you can't process information.
  • (13) We conducted a survey of all accredited emergency medicine residency programs in the United States to determine the content of EMS instruction provided to these physicians-in-training.
  • (14) A broad range of projects are eligible for CDM accreditation, with the notable exceptions of nuclear power and avoided deforestation projects.
  • (15) This article describes a documentation format for Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) standard 6.
  • (16) The least satisfaction was accredited to the difficulty of unscheduled access to the clinic and the lack of continuity with the providers of care.
  • (17) Six factors were identified: pharmacy-medicine linkage, advanced training or degree, drug administration, quality assurance and accreditation, supportive personnel, and pharmacy-nursing conflict.
  • (18) Its courses aren't accredited, and it has no undergraduates.
  • (19) The claims for accountability through accreditation processes in three areas--hospital administration, general post secondary institutions and nursing--are considered and questions raised in each.
  • (20) But the statement continued: “To suggest that these remarks were an attempt to lobby the prime minister in relation to education policy or to seek special favour in relation to its own accreditation courses is ridiculous.

Certify


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To give cetain information to; to assure; to make certain.
  • (v. t.) To give certain information of; to make certain, as a fact; to verify.
  • (v. t.) To testify to in writing; to make a declaration concerning, in writing, under hand, or hand and seal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Calves were tagged in the right ear with the green certified preconditioned for health (CPH) tag of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners.
  • (2) Twenty-two per cent of all deaths (10 children who died outside hospital and six who were certified dead on admission) occurred before specialist care was reached.
  • (3) The performance of candidates on the geriatric medicine items on the American Board of Internal Medicine's 1980, 1981, and 1982 Certifying Examinations was analyzed.
  • (4) Three brands of Ca supplement, a laboratory-reagent grade CaCO3 and a certified reference material (International Atomic Energy Agency H-5 Animal Bone) wee analysed for Cd and Pb by four different analytical techniques, viz., anodic stripping voltammetry inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, flame atomic absorption spectrometry and electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry.
  • (5) "The rise in those who are self-employed is good news, but the reality is that those who have turned to freelance work in order to pull themselves out of unemployment and those who have decided to work for themselves face a challenging tax maze that could land them in hot water should they get it wrong," says Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.
  • (6) Latex particles, including BCR Certified Reference Material CRM 166a, have important applications for checking linearity and for calibrating aperture-impedance instruments used to determine red-cell volumes.
  • (7) The British Medical Association could have been requested to appoint a monitor who could now certify the team's achievement while simultaneously avoiding publicity focused on the Browns with whom the scientist-physician have achieved their success.
  • (8) He continues to be certified as clinically depressed by his GP and a local psychiatrist.
  • (9) Despite spanning more than 1,300 acres it will not, apparently, be a contender for the title of world's largest: that appears still to reside with the 47-stage Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad, India, as certified by Guinness World Records .
  • (10) A chartered certified accountant, he was educated at University College London and holds UK citizenship but is based in Monaco with his wife and two children.
  • (11) Additional staff anesthesiologists, certified nurse-anesthetists, and anesthesia residents should be on call for other emergency surgery.
  • (12) A survey of certified regional poison centers in the United States was performed to determine sources of treatment information for mushroom intoxications, and extent of reporting of mushroom epidemiological data to a national mushroom case registry.
  • (13) Three groups of allied health professionals, including dental hygienists, dietitians, and certified nurse-midwives, were surveyed to determine current practice, beliefs, and attitudes regarding health promotion and disease prevention.
  • (14) The author uses his experience as a certified dental technician to discuss arch and tooth preparation, clasping, and proper impression technique.
  • (15) He suggests that, to prevent abuse of the law and pressure being put on chronic sufferers to end their lives, two doctors should certify a patient is terminally ill and patients should declare their intentions before an independent witness.
  • (16) A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine examined the percentage of physicians listed under specialty headings in a Yellow Pages publication who were board certified.
  • (17) X-ray studies of the ankle joints of 209 patients with operatively certified ankle joint instability were examined retrospectively in order to estimate the importance of lateral instability in causing degenerative osteoarthritis of the ankle joint.
  • (18) This paper reports the results of a survey of 1000 certified dental assistants in Ontario, Canada.
  • (19) Making sure consumers in Asia are buying certified sustainable palm oil would really push the agenda forward,” says Adam Harrison, the palm oil lead for WWF International.
  • (20) The objectives of this study were: (1) to estimate the inter- and intra-laboratory variability associated with the extraction of mixtures for bioassay, (2) to estimate the inter- and intra-laboratory variability associated with the Salmonella typhimurium bioassay when applied to complex mixtures, and (3) to determine whether standard reference complex mixtures would be useful in mutagenicity studies and to evaluate whether reference or certified mutagenicity values determined from this collaborative study should be reported.