Performance Measurement 2.0: Time to Raise the Bar

The safety of the blood supply--time to raise the bar.

blood banks, have typically relied on a reactive approach to these threats, developing and implementing screening tests after potential pathogens are identified. During this often slow and laborious process, pathogen transmission through transfusion is inevitable. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved three new pathogen-reduction technologies (see table). These systems are ca...

Applaud the novel intrathecal baclofen trialing method: time to raise the bar!

Rigorous Science: Suggestions on How to Raise the Bar

We offer suggestions for improving the validity of scientific inferences in wildlife ecology and management. These suggestions are offered under 7 categories as subjects ot debate and refinement within our profession: university education, manuscript review and publication, professional meetings, in-service training, agency funding, review of field studies, and planning and assessment. We recom...

Deploying novel MT technology to raise the bar for quality

This paper is a case study of the deployment of new MT technology aiming at improving the overall Post-Editing (PE) experience. One of the main challenges in having MT output post-edited within a localization workflow is being able to meet ever increasing quality expectations, especially from a terminology perspective. In Symantec‟s localization process we constantly seek to overcome this obsta...

Accreditation System and Standards for Medical Education in Pakistan: It’s time we raise the bar

There is a growing trend towards quality assurance and accreditation of medical schools worldwide.1 Globally, countries use accreditation and standards as regulatory mechanisms to ensure the quality of medical education, and in turn healthcare. Liaison Committee on Medical Education and Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools set standards and accredit medical schools in the USA ...