Any facility or program operated by the Office of Mental Health shall restrict the use of personal cell phones, recording devices, and wireless devices on the grounds of such facility or program, as set forth in this policy directive, provided, however, that the use of personally owned cell phones, recording devices, and wireless devices within forensic and secure facilities or units shall be i...

Telepathology is a potential alternative to conventional histopathology. A clinical trial using a robotic telepathology system was conducted to assess the clinical and technical utility and effectiveness of telepathology in the U.K. breast screening pathology quality assurance program. Eighty-seven cases of breast disease were chosen at random from a series of 192 cases from the U.K. Breast Scr...

Knowledge-based systems have often been criticised for the limited theoretical base upon which they are constructed. This view asserts that systems are often developed in an ad hoc, individual way that leads to unmaintainable, unreliable and non-rigorous systems. The last decade, however, has seen an increased effort to produce methodologies to counter this view as well as continued research in...

Quality assurance in medical services has become a more and more important issue. In order to achieve reliable results of DNA image cytometry as described and discussed in detail in the first part of this report [2], the conditions for reproducible preparation, measurement and interpretation have to be worked out, carefully followed and checked at various steps of the process in certain time in...

introduction: during radiotherapy, high accuracy in the dose delivery is required because there is a strong  relationship between the absorbed dose, local tumor control and particularly the normal tissue damage. in  many institutions, in vivo dosimetry using diodes is performed to check the actual dose delivered. in general,  the uncertainty in the dose delivered should fall within  ± 5% of the...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the utility of a proficiency testing program among limited number of local laboratories as an alternative to the iupac/citac guide on proficiency testing with a limited number of participants, specially where international schemes are not accessible. as a sample scheme we planned to determine aflatoxins (b1, g1, b2, g2, total) in iranian pistachio matrix. a...

Introduction: A reject rate is the percentage of diagnostic images repeated due to errors during radiological examinations. The present study aimed to evaluate the patient radiation doses and analyze the film reject rate as part of quality assurance program in three diagnostic centers in Nigeria. Materials and Methods: This study was conducted in three hospitals, namely Federal Medical Center ...

The Scientific Council (SC) hereby submits its third Report to the A3ES – the Agency for the Evaluation and Accreditation of Higher Education in Portugal. As in the past, we appreciate both the invitation to discuss the current and future state of affairs regarding quality assurance in Portugal, as well as the willingness of the Agency and its leadership to engage frankly and openly in a compre...