How we can measure quality in colonoscopy?

How can we measure machine translation quality?

In this opinion paper, we describe our research work on machine translation evaluation approaches that include mechanisms for human feedback and are designed to allow partial adaptation of the translation models which are being evaluated. While there exists a plethora of different automatic evaluation metrics for machine translation, their output in terms of scores, distances, etc. quite often ...

How do we measure quality?

How can we begin to measure recovery?

BACKGROUND There is a lack of consensus in the addiction treatment literature regarding the definition of substance abuse "recovery". METHODS This study utilized a review of the literature together with a participatory research design to construct a conceptual model of recovery from the perspectives of addiction treatment professionals, those recovering from addictions, and researchers. RES...

Stroke care: how do we measure quality?

The purpose of this paper is to review the methods used to measure quality of stroke care. Relevant articles were searched for on Medline using the following key words: stroke, quality, outcome of care, process of care, structure of care. Articles that examined how to measure the quality of stroke care and that examined difficulties in the measurement of care outcomes, processes, and structures...

How can we enhance the value of laboratory tests?

Today, the pressures on the healthcare systems for the controlling of the costs are extreme and all sectors try to demonstrate the value of their services by justifying the activities and expenditures so the value can be describe in terms like quality, efficiency, effectiveness, patient satisfaction, cost effectiveness .The value of the lab testing is generally directed to their costs and the c...