scholarly journals Validating Quality of Service for Reusable Software Via Model-Integrated Distributed Continuous Quality Assurance

2004 ◽  
pp. 286-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arvind S. Krishna ◽  
Douglas C. Schmidt ◽  
Atif Memon ◽  
Adam Porter ◽  
Diego Sevilla
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Reusable Software ◽  
Continuous Quality ◽  
Continuous Quality Assurance

Impact of Employees' Empowerment on Perceived Quality of Service Delivery in the Tertiary Health Institutions

2021 ◽  
pp. 2014-2030
Author(s):  
Michael Abayomi Fowowe ◽  
Kayode K. Arogundade
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Perceived Quality ◽  
Health Institutions ◽  
Market Needs ◽  
Acute Healthcare

In this current 21st-century global competitive market, employee empowerment plays a significant role in building the internal resource-based capacity of business survival towards meeting and exceeding ever-increasing market needs. The tertiary health institutions saddled with the responsibility of providing acute healthcare services significantly require effective commitment of their healthcare workers in promoting quality of service delivery towards achieving result-oriented healthcare quality assurance outcome. However, the Nigerian health sector has been characterised with diverse challenges in sustaining quality assurance due to lack of leadership commitment in empowering caregivers in the sector effectively. To a large extent, this has weakened the adequate performance of employees, and also, contributed to the observed increase in morbidity and mortality rate in the Nigerian health centres. This aim of this paper is to critically analyse the impact of employees' empowerment on the perceived quality of service delivery in the context of the Nigerian healthcare institutions.

Automated continuous quality assurance

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Neubauer ◽  
Bernhard Steffen ◽  
Oliver Bauer ◽  
Stephan Windmuller ◽  
Maik Merten ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Continuous Quality ◽  
Continuous Quality Assurance

Concordance of MRI-guided and systematic prostate biopsy for the detection of prostate cancer (PCa).

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (29_suppl) ◽  
pp. 277-277
Author(s):  
Matthew Parsons ◽  
Bridget Foy ◽  
Ernest Chan ◽  
Bryan Crawford ◽  
Daniel Sommers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Core Biopsy ◽  
Transrectal Ultrasound ◽  
Quality Assurance Program ◽  
Gleason Grade ◽  
Fusion Biopsy ◽  
Grade Group ◽  
Continuous Quality ◽  
Continuous Quality Assurance ◽  
Intermountain Healthcare

277 Background: MRI/US guided biopsy (fusion biopsy) is increasingly utilized over systemic 12-core transrectal ultrasound biopsy (12-core biopsy) for men with MRI-visible prostate lesions. Methods: Patients with MRI visible prostate lesions who underwent fusion and 12-core biopsy from 2016-2020 in the Intermountain Healthcare (IHC) system were consecutively analyzed. This was in the setting of a continuous quality assurance initiative among the reading radiologists. Primary outcome was PCa detection defined by Gleason grade group (GGG) 1 or higher. Clinically significant cancer (CSC) was defined as GGG 2 or higher. Patients were stratified by date biopsy was performed, 2016-2017 and 2018-2020, and lesions were stratified by PI-RADS v2 category. For men with multiple lesions, the highest PI-RADS v2 category lesion was used. Results: A total of 142 men with 254 MRI-detectable lesions underwent both fusion and 12-core biopsies in the IHC system from 2016 to 2020. CSC was detected in 21.6% (55/254) of fusion biopsies. Comparing PI-RAD v2 categories 1-3 to PI-RADS v2 categories 4-5, the PPV for detecting CSC was 9% (15/162) compared to 44% (40/92) respectively. Fusion and 12-core biopsies were concordant for any PCa in 79% of men (112/142) and CSC in 83% (118/142). Fusion biopsy detected any PCa in 22/84 (26%) and CSC in 15/103 (15%) of men in whom 12-core biopsy was negative. 12-core biopsy detected any PCa in 8/70 (11%) and CSC in 9/97 (9%) of men in whom fusion was negative. In total, 15 patients (11%) had a CSC that would have been missed if fusion biopsy was omitted while 9 (6%) had a CSC that would have been missed without 12-core biopsy. Conclusions: Omitting fusion or 12-core biopsy for PI-RADS v2 lesions would have resulted in a missed CSC in 11% or 6% of patients from 2016-20, respectively. The combination of MRI/US-guided fusion biopsy and systematic 12-core biopsy increased detection rate of CSC. These results are in the setting of a continuous, multi-disciplinary quality assurance program and results are not necessarily applicable to other healthcare systems. [Table: see text]

scholarly journals Skoll: distributed continuous quality assurance

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Memon ◽  
A. Porter ◽  
C. Yilmaz ◽  
A. Nagarajan ◽  
D. Schmidt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Continuous Quality ◽  
Continuous Quality Assurance

'Z-Pak' vs Ice Pack: Need for Clarity and Continuous Quality Assurance-Reply

JAMA ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 278 (17) ◽  
pp. 1405
Author(s):  
Patricia Byrns ◽  
Joseph Cranston
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Continuous Quality ◽  
Continuous Quality Assurance ◽  
Ice Pack
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