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 ...

A brief review of the Hospital Outpatient Quality Data Reporting Program (HOP QDRP) is presented highlighting the program's legislative history, outpatient imaging efficiency measures and program requirements. Specifically, HOP QDRP measures applicable to imaging practices are discussed. Resources are also provided for further information on the program's requirements and measures.

• Introduction to Galaxy • Galaxy data quality program goals • Galaxy data quality program current components – Maintaining dimension tables and reviewing the integrity of primary and foreign keys – Monitoring, measuring and reporting on Galaxy’s data quality – Implementing improvements based on data quality findings • Business environment success factors • Throughout the presentation, we will ...

A quality assurance program in radiology provides the basis for systematic measurement of various parameters which affect the quality and production of a radiographic image. We have outlined a program which can be implemented in dental offices by dentists or auxiliary personnel without sophisticated instruments. Tests designed to establish the adequacy of specific functions are described togeth...

Social indicators and program evaluation research have much in common. Quality of ltfe work specifically raises the question of objective versus subjective variables, aggregate data versus distributional and individual issues, and the reference standards used in judgment and evaluation decisions. This articlepresentsperspectives on these issues from the orientation of quality of life research a...

VoIP represents the future of digital voice communications and many carriers are preparing for the VoIP revolution. However, a number of outstanding issues need to be settled. The most important are security, compression, packet size optimization, quality of service and performance in heterogeneous networks. We have addressed all of these issues [2, 3, 4, 5] and here we summarize our key findin...

Energy efficiency is a key concern in the design of modern computer systems. One promising approach to energyefficient computation, approximate computing, trades off output precision for energy efficiency. However, this tradeoff can have unexpected effects on computation quality. This paper presents dynamic-analysis tools to debug and monitor the quality of approximate computations. We propose ...

F or nearly half a century, field experiments have been conducted from the tropics to the polar regions involving intensive observations of atmosphere, ocean, and land processes over selected locations of interest. In a recent article, Johnson et al. (2012) identified more than 50 past field experiments with upper-air sonde datasets (see their Fig. 2, which shows a map depicting the shape, size...

ublic reporting of comparative quality performance measurements of healthcare providers is a recent U.S. and world trend: not a fad. While there are significant benefits to be derived from such an initiative, there are staggering hurdles that must be overcome as well. For 10 years, I have been privileged to view public reporting at the very interface of purchaser-provider interaction in the Cle...