Quality improvement (QI) is a more recent phenomenon in healthcare, but many are familiar with the term Quality Assurance (QA) as it was a common term for a number of years. QA can be considered reactive, generally retrospective, occasionally involving policing, and in many ways punitive or finger pointing. It often involves determining who was at fault after a medical error. The term QA is old...

Assurance provides confidence that a system will work as required and not cause harm. Confidence is based on justified beliefs about the system and its environment, and justification can be developed and documented as an assurance case comprised of a structured argument grounded on evidence. For justification to be compelling, the argument must be indefeasible, meaning that we have so thoroughl...

This paper describes an evidence-based quality assurance system for teaching and learning, which takes as its starting point a well-researched theoretical perspective on student learning in higher education. We argue this explicit use of a relevant theoretical base promotes coherence between quality assurance and improvement processes. We outline the principal features of our university’s quali...

In hardware/software codesign, modeling is a very important issue. The model must capture the features of the system and describe its functionality. The design cycle must be based on formal representations so that the synthesis of a design from specification to implementation can be carried out systematically. Many models have been proposed for representing HW/SW systems. This report is the res...

Student outcomes are statements that describe the attributes; skills and abilities that students should have and be able to do by the time of graduation. For quality assurance evaluation, these outcomes must be assessed. In order to evaluate the level to which an outcome is met, it is necessary to select some courses where the outcome is covered. Course objectives must be linked to the student ...

background: evaluation of patient care can lead to finfing out weakness and strengths of the care in order to increase the quality of services. objective: to evaluate the quality of patients cares with continuous bladder irrigation. methods: in an analytic-descriptive research, 48 patients with continuous bladder irrigation who suffered from urologic disorders were studied. data gathering was b...

Cannabinoid Dose and Label Accuracy in Edible Medical Cannabis Products As the use of cannabis (marijuana) for medical purposes has expanded, a variety of edible products for oral consumption hasbeendeveloped.Anestimated16%to26%ofpatientsusing medical cannabisconsumeedibleproducts.1,2Eventhoughoral consumption lacks theharmful by-products of smoking, difficult dose titration can result in overd...