THE CARDIFF MS DMT MDT: QUALITY ASSURING TREATMENT DECISIONS

Assuring quality.

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 ...

Assuring the Quality of Volunteered Geographic Information

Volunteered geographic information (VGI) is a phenomenon of recent years, offering an alternative mechanism for the acquisition and compilation of geographic information. As such it offers substantial advantages, but suffers from a general lack of quality assurance. We discuss the issues involved in the determination of quality for geospatial data, and trace the history of research on VGI quali...

Assuring Quality of Experience for IPTV

Assuring the quality of drugs used for the treatment and control of leprosy.

Improvements in case-finding can make a significant contribution to reducing the prevalence and transmission of leprosy and the efficiency with which diagnosed patients are treated with the multidrug regimens recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) . 1-7 In 1 988 it was estimated that only about 5 million of the 1 01 2 million leprosy cases in the world had been diagnosed and registe...