1 This work is supported by the National Science Foundation through ITR program grant No CCR 0296082, and by NASA through a grant from the NASA Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (OSMA) Software Assurance Research Program (SARP) managed through the NASA Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Facility, Fairmont, West Virginia. 2 Correspondence author. E-mail: [email protected] Abstract

ISSUE ADDRESSED This paper considers the role of ethics and ethics review processes in the development of health promotion quality assurance and evaluation activities involving human participants. CONTENT The Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research and associated documents provide the framework for the ethical con...

OBJECTIVES To assess preceptors' opinions of the impact of quality assurance projects. METHODS Students were given the opportunity to directly apply material learned in class in a "real world" environment by completing a quality assurance project in a community or health-system pharmacy. All preceptors (n = 38) were contacted via telephone and given the opportunity to respond to open-ended qu...

This research explores the mechanism underlying the relationship between online vendor’s service efforts and consumers’ intention to repurchase with third party assurance seals. The current study examines the influence of the third party assurance seals on repurchase process from online vendor attributes. Drawing on the disconfirmation paradigm, we argue that a repurchase process is affected by...

The concept of continuous assurance is not new, with a history spanning close to three decades in various guises. Recently there has been renewed attention in the area due to compliance imperatives, trends in governance and risk, anti-fraud measures and technological advances. However significant uncertainty surrounds the practicalities of how continuous assurance may be effectively implemented...

Marin County Department of Health and Human Services is currently developing a Quality Assurance/Improvement system for Child Welfare Services. To inform the design of this system, this study reviewed systems in place in Solano County Health and Social Services and Napa County Health and Human Services. Specifically, the following questions were addressed to each county: • What is the structure...

BACKGROUND There are several reasons why resuscitation measures may lead to inferior results: difficulties in team building, delayed realization of the emergency and interruption of chest compression. This study investigated the outcome of a new form of in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training with special focus on changes in self-assurance of potential helpers when faced with e...

Self-adaptive software systems modify their behaviour at runtime in response to changes in the system or its environment. The fulfilment of the system requirements and reachability of the system goals needs to be guaranteed even in the presence of adaptations. Thus, a key challenge for self-adaptive software systems is assurance. Traditionally, confidence in the correctness of a system is gaine...

The paper explores international comparisons of the extent of commonality or diversity in the main national external quality assurance frameworks for higher education. It has been suggested, from an European survey, that there are common features in national quality assurance frameworks (van Vught and Westerheijden (Quality Management and Quality Assurance in European Higher Education: Methods ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE In 1998, the International Breast Cancer Screening Network (IBSN) sponsored an assessment of quality assurance policies and practices to define their scope for population-based screening mammography programmes across IBSN countries. DESIGN Analysis of data from a survey designed to assess multiple elements of screening programme quality assurance, including organisation of qua...