Explaining Organizational Variety in Evaluation Quality Assurance: Which Conditions Matter?

Quality Assurance in Endoscopy: Which Parameters?

BACKGROUND The verbalisation of quality standards and parameters by medical societies are relevant for qualitative improvement but may also be an instrument to demand more resources for health care or be a unique characteristic. Within the health care system 3 different quality levels can be defined: structure, process and result quality. METHODS The current S2k guideline of the German Societ...

The Challenge of Organizational Culture in Quality Assurance Implementation

Organizational aspects in an anatomical pathology quality assurance programme.

INTRODUCTION METHODS Since 1968 The Royal College of The following methods were adopted 1 : P Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA) has been Diagnostic Skills of Pathologists were tested conducting ist to pathology Surveys with the by exmining reports returned by pathologists intention of testing the diagnostic ability of after processing the tissue or examining the surgical pathologists in Austra...

Quality Assurance Whose Quality and Whose Assurance?

Government involvement in quality assurance is becoming the trend in many countries, including New Zealand. What values underpin the systems that evolve in each country, and who has given legitimacy to them? In the context of the prevailing ideology of early childhood, this paper unpacks quality assurance in Australia and comments on the assumptions, taken for granted premises and values which ...

Quality Assurance Tradeoff Analysis Method (QATAM) An Empirical Quality Assurance Planning and Evaluation Framework

The selection and design of quality assurance (QA) methods for software development projects a) involves tradeoffs that are not always made explicit and b) the impacts of the selection decisions on project success and risks may be not well understood. Similar to SEI’s ATAM analysis technique for software architecture quality and risk evaluation, this paper introduces the ideas for QATAM, a tech...