Objective: Usability inspection methods are a class of usability evaluation methods, applied by usability evaluators to assess usability related aspects of different user interfaces. Different usability inspection methods are proposed so far to evaluate user interfaces in a better way. This systematic literature review summarized different usability evaluation methods, with more focus on two wi...

The authors are on the editorial team of Open Medicine. T o ensure the credibility of research findings and to maintain public trust in the research process, it is critical that research be conducted transparently. Consideration of how financial, institutional and personal interests influence how research is designed, conducted and published is an increasingly important part of this transparenc...

OBJECTIVE The importance of quality assurance in cancer screening has recently gained increasing attention in Japan. To evaluate and improve quality, checklists and process indicators have been developed. To explore effective methods of enhancing quality in cancer screening, we started a randomized control study of the methods of evaluation and feedback for cancer control from 2009 to 2014. M...

PURPOSE People with epilepsy are at risk of injury, and protection from potential dangers must be balanced against the need for autonomy. We developed an epilepsy risk awareness checklist (ERAC) as a tool to assess potential risks of epilepsy and related injuries, aiming to improve management strategies. It was designed for use by specialist nurses (in learning disability and epilepsy), as ther...

[Context/Motivation] For areas such as Government IT Procurement, the Software Requirements Specification (SRS) often forms the basis for a public procurement. In these cases, having domain knowledge is often mutually exclusive to knowing RE. Domain experts lacking the necessary RE experience face issues assessing the quality and correctness of the SRS. This especially forms a problem for situa...

PURPOSE To review the literature on the methods used in writing case-specific checklists for studies of internal medicine physicians' performances that were assessed by standardized patients. METHOD The authors searched Medline, Embase, Psychlit, and ERIC for articles in English published between 1966 and February 1998. The following search string was used: "[(standardi(*) or simulat(*) or pr...

OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY To develop an approach for evaluating quality assurance (QA) activities and programs in health care settings and to test different evaluation methods. DESIGN This was not a formal scientific study, but rather a research and development (R&D) study, which followed the following steps: (1) reviewing the literature; (2) clarifying critical issues for all key aspects of QA ...

The main purpose of the study is to evaluate the heuristic inspection of children’s authoring tools to develop games. The researcher has selected 15 authoring tools for making games specifically for educational purposes. Nine students from Diploma of Game Design and Development course and four lecturers from the computing department involved in this evaluation. A set of usability heuristic chec...

Abbreviations: APACHE: Acute Physiology and Cronic Health Evaluation; CAPS: Clinician Administered PTSD Scale; DTS: Davidson Trauma Scale; GCS: Glasgow Coma Scale; HADS: Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale; HRQoL: Health Related Quality of Life; IES: Impact of Events Scale; IES-R: Impact of Events Scale-Revised; ICU: Intensive Care Unit; ISS: Injury Severity Score; LOS: length of Stay; MV: Me...