Technology Variations: Strategies for Assuring Quality Results

Assuring quality.

Assuring the quality of clinical microbiology test results.

The role of microbiology laboratories in the care of patients with suspected or known infections has been described in previous articles in this series of medical microbiology updates. This review addresses the broader role of clinical microbiology laboratories in the quality of care and patient safety. The importance of microbiology laboratories in the care of patients with infectious diseases...

Assuring Quality of Experience for IPTV

Special Section: Assuring Information Quality

DONALD BALLOU is an Emeritus member of the faculty of the School of Business at the University at Albany. His graduate degrees are in applied mathematics, and his research has involved modeling in a variety of fields, including nonlinear fluid flow, production quality control, regional and transportation planning, information resource management, and especially data and information quality. At ...

Proposal for assuring technology competency and leadership in medicine.

The "modest" proposal advanced by Friedman and McCabe in this issue of the Journal (7) that "All third-party payers of health care (private and public) should cover the clinical care costs (within the financial agreements of policy provisions) but not the research costs associated with patient participation in National Cancer Institute (NCI)-sponsored therapeutic clinical trials" can be an acce...