Test Design and Minimum Standards

Minimum standards of anorectal manometry.

Functional disorders of the anus and rectum affect 10–20% of the population. Tests of anorectal function can provide useful information regarding the pathophysiology of disorders that affect continence and defecation or those that cause anorectal pain. Currently, several tests are available for evaluating anorectal function (Table 1). Often, they complement each other, but among the various tes...

Minimum Standards for Church Archives

Minimum Quality Standards and consumers’ information

The literature so far has analyzed the effects of Minimum Quality Standards in oligopoly, using models of pure vertical differentiation, with only two firms, and perfect information. We analyze products that are differentiated horizontally and vertically, with imperfect consumers information, and more than two firms. We show that a MQS changes the consumers’ perception of produced qualities. Th...

IEEE Test and Diagnostics Standards

The 1232 family of standards were developed to provide standard exchange formats and software services for reasoning systems used in system test and diagnosis. The exchange formats and services are based on a model of information required to support test and diagnosis. The standards were developed by the Diagnostic and Maintenance Control (D&MC) subcommittee of IEEE SCC20. The current efforts b...

Guidelines: minimum standards, gold standards, or ideals for practice?

I have a spectrum of reactions to guidelines. Most impress me with the sheer volume of material that has been reviewed. Some show great thoughtfulness & practicality, such as the “Guidelines for Management of Valvular Heart Disease” [1]. Others contain recommendations without basis in trial data, such as the recent PCI guideline suggestion that post-PCI CK-MB elevations might require additional...