Clinical Concerns About Clinical Performance Measurement

Clinical Concerns about Recurrence of Non-Functioning Pituitary Adenoma

BACKGROUND Non-functioning pituitary adenomas (NFPA) are clinically challenging because they present at a late stage with local mass effects or hypopituitarism. Surgery for non-functioning pituitary adenoma requires a special strategic approach for both minimal morbidity and radical resection. However, the clinical predictive factors associated with recurrence are limited. Here, we investigated...

What to do about poor clinical performance in clinical trials.

An Effective Model for a Comprehensive Performance Measurement of Clinical and Research Laboratory Centers

Abstract Bachground and objectives: Improvement of the effectiveness of services is one of the most important strategies in many clinical and research laboratory centers. The increased client satisfaction (researchers or patients), resource development innovation efficacy, continuity of services and income are also the important strategies of these centers. For achieving these strategies, we co...

Viewpoints of Nursing Students and Faculties about Clinical Performance Assessment Using Programmatic Approach

Introduction: Clinical assessment in nursing education is essential because of variety of objectives and complexity of clinical performance. Programmatic approach is an opportunity for comprehensive and multidimensional assessment. Opinions of stakeholders have an effect on application and effectiveness of a program. Thus, the aim of this study was evaluation of nursing students’ and faculties’...

Evaluation of biochemical methods performance in clinical laboratories: is this performance suitable for clinical application?

Background: Clinical application of the test results are profoundly influenced by laboratory errors. Nowadays, the best way to evaluate the performance of a method is to determine its sigma scale according to total allowable error (TEa) and analytical errors, including random and systematic errors. In this study, the performance of the measuring kits for biochemical analytes belonging to Pars A...