Why we need ethical oversight of quality improvement projects

Software Process Improvement: Why we need SPIQ

In the last decade, there has been much interest in the software process as a vehicle to improve software production. Many Process-Centered Software Engineering Environments (PSEEs) have been constructed and documented, although to a less extent tested in industrial settings. It is now time to assess progress and set course for future efforts. That is, what is now ready for deployment, where is...

The Asian Nuclear Medicine Board; Why Do We Need It?

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Ethical oversight in quality improvement and quality improvement research: new approaches to promote a learning health care system

BACKGROUND Institutional review boards (IRBs) distinguish health care quality improvement (QI) and health care quality improvement research (QIR) based primarily on the rigor of the methods used and the purported generalizability of the knowledge gained. Neither of these criteria holds up upon scrutiny. Rather, this apparently false dichotomy may foster under-protection of participants in QI pr...

The quality improvement-research divide and the need for external oversight.

Historically, quality assurance studies have received scant ethical attention. The advent of information systems capable of supporting research-grade continuous quality improvement projects demands that we clearly define how these projects differ from research and when they require external review. The ethical obligation for the performance of quality assurance projects, with its emphasis on id...

Why we need qualitative research.