Background: Quality assurance (QA) plays a critical role in patient safety during radiation therapy. Among various QA checks, pretreatment physics plan review is sensitive at detecting errors before beam delivery. Therefore, we aimed to assess the detected and chart (PTPCR) through failure mode effects analysis (FMEA) evaluate quality effectiveness of PTPCR performed our clinic.

Background: External beam radiotherapy and brachytherapy plays a vital role in the management of cancer cervix.  High dose rate brachytherapy is being presently used worldwide for the brachytherapy applications. At present, 2-Dimensional linear array detectors   are the most common QA tool used for pretreatment patient specific quality assurance in external beam radiotherapy alon...

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Background Iran has a widespread diagnostics and clinical support services (DCSS) network that plays a crucial role in providing diagnostic and clinical support services to both inpatient and outpatient care. However, very little is known on the application of quality assurance (QA) policies in DCSS units. This study explores the extent of application of eleven QA strategies in DCSS units withi...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to critically evaluate the importance of quality control (QC) and quality assurance (QA) strategies in the routine work of uterine cervix cytology. STUDY DESIGN We revised all the main principles of QC and QA that are already being implemented worldwide and then discussed the positive aspects and limitations of these as well as proposing alternatives when pertinent. RESUL...

Introduction: In radiation therapy, accurate dose determination and precise dose delivery to the tumor are directly associated with better treatment outcomes in terms of higher tumor control and lower post radiation therapy complications. The current study aims the development and clinical application of the Patient Specific Quality Assurance (PSQA) procedures for nasopharyngea...

Andrology laboratories need to produce reliable results for appropriate diagnostic and health care decisions. Since semen analysis is highly complex and procedurally difficult to standardize, quality control (QC) is essential to detect and correct systematic errors and high variability of results. The large discrepancies between assessments of sperm concentration and morphology in different lab...

Quality assurance (QA) and customer satisfaction (C-Sat) analysis are two commonly used practices to measure goodness of dialogues between agents and customers in contact centers. The practices however have a few shortcomings. QA puts sole emphasis on agents’ organizational compliance aspect whereas C-Sat attempts to measure customers’ satisfaction only based on post-dialogue surveys. As a resu...

In order to establish and maintain the credibility of national educational systems, institutions and programmes in higher education it is necessary to assure the high quality of education provision. Quality Assurance (QA) systems can help us prove that the quality of student learning achieved using eLearning systems is equivalent to face-toface teaching methods. In this respect, Quality Assuran...