For intensity-modulated radiation therapy, evaluation of the measured dose against the treatment planning calculated dose is essential in the context of patient-specific quality assurance. The complexity of volumetric arc radiotherapy delivery attributed to its dynamic and synchronization nature require new methods and potentially new tools for the quality assurance of such techniques. In the p...

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...

German legislation introduced in 1988 called for obligatory quality assurance (QA) practice to be initiated by health care providers. In 1992 the scope of the legislation was extended. Opportunities for introducing quality assurance practice in ophthalmology are demonstrated through examples. A necessary preliminary step to QA is to identify priority areas requiring action. A second necessary a...

The researchers construct a defect occurrence prevention technique called the Total QA Network Model that uses a combination of quality assurance tools and establishes partnerships. Their focus is on integrated quality assurance spanning different departments in manufacturing companies (from design to production) and extending further to part manufacturers. The Total Quality Assurance Networkin...

COMEM 0009-08-FINAL 2 0. Executive summary Non-Formal Education (NFE), and the increase in its recognition, is a top priority for the European Youth Forum (YFJ). That the recognition has not been sufficiently achieved is in part due to a lack of confidence in the quality of NFE within society and within youth organisations themselves. The YFJ believes that youth organisations can further the re...

Ohio Revised Code 4765.12 mandates the implementation of ongoing peer review and quality assurance (QA) programs for all emergency medical service (EMS) organizations in the State of Ohio. The purpose of implementing QA programs for EMS is to ensure delivery of quality care to the public. Public health core strategies are to assess systems and assure the implementation of policies and processes...

In 2010, the NCS (Netherlands Commission on Radiation Dosimetry) installed a subcommittee to develop guidelines for quality assurance and control for volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) treatments. The report (published in 2015) has been written by Dutch medical physicists and has therefore, inevitably, a Dutch focus. This paper is a condensed version of these guidelines, the full report in...

This paper addresses the question: is higher capability maturity associated with adoption of Quality Assurance (QA) certification? To assess the extent of adoption of third-party QA certification by Australian software developers, a survey of 1,000 software developers was recently conducted. The questionnaire also included an assessment of their capability maturity based on the capability matur...

While the authors recognise that this survey cannot claim to be representative of the views on Quality Assurance within the SME software sector in Ireland, they provide an interesting overview of attitudes towards this topic. The data is sometimes contradictory and unclear but we use it to explore the issues concerning QA practices in which we and others, including Enterprise Ireland, have an i...

The paper addresses the presentation of the medical information system and describes its application for quality assurance (QA) programs under the conditions of Georgia rules. 100 gynecological cytology cases were randomly selected. Digital images were obtained on all cases. All 100 cases (medical data and images) have been uploaded into the medical information system and labeled “QA”. Diagnosi...