A primary goal of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) is ensuring high quality outcomes and patient safety in vascular and interventional radiology. For more than a decade, SIR, through its Standards Division, has taken a leadership role in improving health care quality through the development of evidence-based standards and clinical practice guidelines for the successful performance ...

This paper is an overview of the work being performed by the ISO committee TC184/SC2 “Robots and Robotic Devices”. SC2 is developing safety standards for robotic applications in personal and medical care, as well as revising existing industrial robot standards with requirements for new applications. A key driver of the new standards is the need for safety guidelines for human robot interaction,...

BACKGROUND People intending to travel may seek information on malaria prevention from a range of sources. To ensure the best protection, this information needs to be reliable, up-to-date, consistent, and useful to their decision making. This study appraises current international and national guidelines written in English for malaria prevention in travellers, and whether any recommendations conf...

Background: The preparedness and safety of hospitals in disasters are essential to maintain the health and survival of the community. Numerous studies have shown that the level of preparedness of Iranian hospitals is moderate and low. Lack of comprehensive hospital standards for disaster preparedness is one of the reasons. This study aimed to develop hospital accreditation standards for hospita...

The objectives of this research are 1) to analyze the confirmatory factors performance standards and conduct teachers who have been certified through Teachers' Council Professional Knowledge Standards training 2) study level compliance with standards, 3) development guidelines according standards. samples consisted 348 persons passed teachers' professional knowledge standard Tea...

The International Cooperation on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Veterinary Medicinal Products (VICH) is an international tripartite cooperation programme that brings together regulatory authorities and industry representatives from the European Union, Japan and the United States, with Australia, New Zealand and Canada as observers. VICH aims to improve international...

Flight control systems, railway interlocking systems, and nuclear reactor protection systems are examples of safety critical systems from different industrial domains. A safety critical system within any of these domains requires some type of acceptance from a safety authority prior to commissioning. The minimum prerequisite for achieving acceptance is to comply with relevant normative requirem...