The Dilemma: How to Assure Quality in Surgical Clinics

Standards to assure quality in nursing research.

The focus of this article is quality assurance in nursing research. Due to well established problems regarding the education of nursing research and increasing pressure to take responsibility for the quality of all educational activities, departments of nursing are obliged to initiate actions to assure quality in nursing research. A nursing department functions within a well-defined external co...

How to Assure the Quality of Human Computation Tasks When Majority Voting Fails?

Quality assurance remains a key topic in human computation research. Prior work indicates that independent agreement is effective for low difficulty tasks, but performs poorly for moderately difficult tasks since the majority of responses may be inaccurate. We present experimental results showing that humans are better at identifying correct answers than producing correct answers in such modera...

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Reflections and proposals to assure quality in molecular diagnostics.

Molecular diagnostic testing has become an important tool in clinical laboratories. Accreditation according to the international quality standard ISO15189:2007 for medical laboratories is required for reimbursement of several molecular diagnostic tests in Belgium. Since the ISO15189:2007 standard applies to medical laboratories in general, the particular requirements for quality and competence ...

Surgical Clinics