Quality Assurance of Ultrasonography.

Quality Assurance Whose Quality and Whose Assurance?

Government involvement in quality assurance is becoming the trend in many countries, including New Zealand. What values underpin the systems that evolve in each country, and who has given legitimacy to them? In the context of the prevailing ideology of early childhood, this paper unpacks quality assurance in Australia and comments on the assumptions, taken for granted premises and values which ...

Effectiveness of on-site education for quality assurance of screening ultrasonography for hepatocellular carcinoma.

AIM To evaluate the usefulness of on-site education for clinical imaging evaluation using quality assurance (QA) testing of surveillance ultrasonography (US) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). MATERIAL AND METHODS Thirty-eight medical institutes underwent on-site education in 2012 for QA testing of clinical imaging evaluation of surveillance US for HCC. Failure rates and mean scores of clini...

Quality Assurance

Quality assurance.

Any facility or program operated by the Office of Mental Health shall restrict the use of personal cell phones, recording devices, and wireless devices on the grounds of such facility or program, as set forth in this policy directive, provided, however, that the use of personally owned cell phones, recording devices, and wireless devices within forensic and secure facilities or units shall be i...

Quality Assurance of Metabolomics

Mounir Bouhifd 1, Richard Beger 2, Thomas Flynn 3, Lining Guo 4, Georgina Harris 1, Helena Hogberg 1, Rima Kaddurah-Daouk 5, Hennicke Kamp 6, Andre Kleensang 1, Alexandra Maertens 1, Shelly Odwin-DaCosta 1, David Pamies 1, Donald Robertson 7, Lena Smirnova 1, Jinchun Sun 2, Liang Zhao 1 and Thomas Hartung 1, 8 1Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Alternatives...