The promotion of clinical image quality is a primary goal of the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA). In fact, there is a requirement in the MQSA regulations that “[c]linical images produced by any certified facility must continue to comply with the standards for clinical image quality established by that facility’s accreditation body” (21 CFR 900.12(i)). When performing clinical image rev...

BACKGROUND Molecular diagnostic methods have played and continuing to have a critical role in clinical laboratories in recent years. Therefore, standardization is an evolutionary process that needs to be upgrade with increasing scientific knowledge, improvement of the instruments and techniques. The aim of this study was to design a quality assurance program in order to have similar conditions ...

Remote laboratories have been subjected to considerable scrutiny, as to their place in educational programs, since their original use in the early 90’s. Since this time they have been the focus of academic research, and subsequent reviews, which show that they have potential advantages over traditional laboratories when correctly used. While these advantages are generally understood and agreed ...

The International Standard Organization (ISO) 15189 accreditation has raised new enthusiasm among laboratory professionals. On the one hand, it satisfies the desire to undertake a pathway attesting the high degree of quality of laboratory performance measured according to the important role of Laboratory Medicine throughout patient care. On the other hand, it allows demonstrating how the compet...

BACKGROUND There are many health professionals from abroad working in the European Union and in Austria. The situation of sub-Saharan health workers in particular has now been studied for the first time. The objective was to explore their reasons for migration to Austria, as well as their personal experiences concerning the living and working situation in Austria. METHODS We conducted semi-st...

BACKGROUND Evidence is available on the potential efficacy of interprofessional education (IPE) to foster interprofessional cooperation, improve professional satisfaction, and improve patient care. While the intention of the World Health Organization (WHO) is to implement IPE in all countries, evidence comes from developed countries about its efficiency, challenges, and barriers to planning and...

Introduction. Accreditation has a long antecedence in western countries educational systems and its history of implementation is more than a century in a country such as United States of America. In European countries, also different activities have been implied throughout the accreditation and its implementation has become an essential. Now, in our country the experts also think of the accredi...

BACKGROUND AIMS Quality cell manufacturing processes require a clean laboratory environment. METHODS This report was aimed at describing current cleaning and sanitization practices reported by facilities that manufacture many types of cellular therapy products for clinical use. It is our hope that this report may provide the groundwork for guidance recommendations directed at developing conse...

Decades of research and development to address young drivers’ over-involvement in road crashes has led critical improvements understanding interventions, yet mostly focused on drivers or their parents. Driving instructors have a key role the driver safety system, substantially less attention been paid accreditation professional specific teaching drivers. Neurobiological during mid-to-late adole...