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... . One of the virtues of a nongovernmental voluntary accreditation process is its flexibility, and nongovernmental accreditation bodies should not find it difficult to accommodate disparate organizational structures.
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... Those in the best position to make this determination will be organizations devising the nongovernmental accreditation processes, not this committee or the federal government. Whether to develop one set of standards or a few sets of standards specific to a few different classes of research organizations should not be decided by fiat but should be decided in light of experience gained through pilot accreditation programs that include medical and nonmedical sites.
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