A questionnaire was circulated to clinical biochemistry laboratories in the North West Thames region of the United Kingdom requesting information on extralaboratory equipment. Data on the types and numbers of instruments in use, their relationship with the laboratory, and quality assurance procedures were obtained. Laboratories were prepared to maintain equipment over which they had no responsi...

introduction dosimetric accuracy is a major issue in the quality assurance (qa) program for treatment planning systems (tps). an important contribution to this process has been a proper dosimetry method to guarantee the accuracy of delivered dose to the tumor. in brachytherapy (bt) of gynecological (gyn) cancer it is usual to insert a combination of tandem and ovoid applicators with a complicat...

background: health system pharmacies, like other health care professional, practice under a number of mandated stan­dards. basic concepts of quality assurance (qa) standards should be applied to hospital pharmacy practice. the survey re­ported here is to assess qa system implementation and its standard indicators observation in tehran university of medical sci­ences (tums) hospitals' pharmacies...

1 This work is supported by the National Science Foundation through ITR program grant No CCR 0296082, and by NASA through a grant from the NASA Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (OSMA) Software Assurance Research Program (SARP) managed through the NASA Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Facility, Fairmont, West Virginia. 2 Correspondence author. E-mail: [email protected] Abstract

The purpose of assurance activities is to reduce risk, thereby ensuring requirements. However, assurance activities incur costs such as budget, schedule, mass ( e g , radiation shielding), etc. The selection of assurance activities to perform is thus an assurance optimization problem. For example, for a given budget, selection of the set of assurance activities that will minimize risk (i.e., ma...

Syracuse University is one of thirty-six National Security Agency designated Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education. Our IA program was developed within the Center for Systems Assurance (CSA), whose mission is to promote improvement in systems and information assurance through research, education, and technology trans-