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accreditation

procedure by which an authoritative body gives formal recognition that an organization is competent to carry out specific tasks (def: ISO 15189:2012)
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accreditation

Summary

accreditation ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (95 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • accreditation is a type of certification[2].
  • accreditation is a type of quality control method[3].
  • accreditation's Commons category is recorded as Accreditation[4].
  • accreditation's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Accreditation[5].
  • accreditation's main Wikidata property is recorded as P5514[6].
  • accreditation's different from is recorded as Accreditation[7].
  • accreditation's object named as is recorded as procedure by which an authoritative body gives formal recognition that an organization is competent to carry out specific tasks.[8].
  • accreditation's object named as is recorded as Procedure by which an authoritative body gives formal recognition that a body or person is competent to carry out specific tasks.[9].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include certification[2] and quality control method[3].

Why It Matters

accreditation ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (95 views/month).[1] accreditation has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] accreditation is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . ISO 15189 accreditation: Requirements for quality and competence of medical laboratories, experience of a laboratory II.. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . World Health Organization. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 11d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → certification, quality control method
    Topic's main category → Category:Accreditation
    Different from → Accreditation
    Subclass of → —
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|9 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 5622, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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