New technologies continue to be developed to improve the practice of radiation therapy. As several of these technologies have been implemented clinically, the Therapy Committee and the Quality Assurance and Outcomes Improvement Subcommittee of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine commissioned Task Group 147 to review the current nonradiographic technologies used for localization a...

Often in software development processes, tighter and more systematic integration of quality assurance techniques and measurements in the operational processes is desirable. While some processes specify abstract quality assurance measures, concrete requisite measures directly relevant for specific product artifacts (e.g., code) or processes (e.g., testing) must be determined operationally and co...

Point of care testing (POCT) refers to laboratory testing that occurs near to the patient, often at the patient bedside. POCT can be advantageous in situations requiring rapid turnaround time of test results for clinical decision making. There are many challenges associated with POCT, mainly related to quality assurance. POCT is performed by clinical staff rather than laboratory trained individ...

Patient satisfaction is an important indicator in improving the quality of hospital. RSIA Siti Hawa always tries to improve hospital order provide excellent service patients. One efforts made by knowing level patient satisfaction. The purpose this study was determine extent with Hospital so that it can assist management evaluating and services quality. This research conducted using Service Qual...

This paper provides an overview of the regulation of quality assurance for genetic testing in Australia and New Zealand and outlines the steps currently being taken to critically appraise and improve the regulatory framework in each country. It aims to contextualize this framework within the broader context of quality and patient safety concerns; and to draw together the concerns and recommenda...

The use of model-based software development has become more and more popular because it aims to increase the quality of software development. Therefore, the number and the size of model instances are cumulatively growing and software quality and quality assurance consequently lead back to the quality and quality assurance of the involved models. For model quality assurance, several quality aspe...

ISSUE All too often, quality assurance looks at just one small part of the complex system that is health care. However, evidently each individual patient has one set of experiences and outcomes, often involving a range of health professionals in a number of settings across multiple sectors. ADDRESSING THE ISSUE In order to solve the problems of this complexity, we need to establish high-quali...