Regulations, Standards, Guidelines, and Benchmarks

Essential Education Standards & Benchmarks

Standards for Spatial Regulations

The Leibniz Center for Law is involved in the project Digitale Uitwisseling Ruimtelijke Plannen (DURP; digital exchange of spatial plans) which develops a digital exchange format for spatial regulations. For the researchers of the Leibniz Center for Law, having designed the Lex XML schema (cf. Boer et al., 2002 and Boer et al., 2003) for ‘regular’ legal sources, involvement in the DURP project ...

Review and comparison of quality standards, guidelines and regulations for laboratories

BACKGROUND The variety and number of laboratory quality standards, guidelines and regulations (hereafter: quality documents) makes it difficult to choose the most suitable one for establishing and maintaining a laboratory quality management system. OBJECTIVES There is a need to compare the characteristics, suitability and applicability of quality documents in view of the increasing efforts to...

Acmg Standards and Guidelines

introduction Laboratories are beginning to offer pharmacogenetics assays in support of continuing efforts toward more personalized medicine. In patients with breast cancer for whom treatment with tamoxifen is being considered, the clinical validity of CYP2D6 genotyping is not well established. Nonetheless, the results may be helpful in identifying patients who will not respond well to the treat...

Heart disease, guidelines, regulations, and the law.

The practice of cardiology is increasingly constrained by guidelines, regulations, and legal considerations. Cardiologists, like any other group of doctors, have a primary duty of care to individual patients, but also have wider responsibilities to society in general, to their institution, and to their colleagues. In the UK these duties and responsibilities have been defined by the General Medi...