We have built a team of research assistants across seven states in India that conduct prospective epidemiology and quality assurance research on prehospital care in India.
Through this volunteer work, she became involved in a quality assurance research project on administering antibiotics to neonates with sepsis, an infection in the blood that spreads throughout the body.
The potential benefits of an EMR are many, both for patient care, quality assurance, research, and policy [ 4- 11].
In summary, although the education of health providers has improved since the mid-1990's, this area still requires further attention and the subject of future quality assurance research.
One important CCC-EMN research goal is to establish a single-source-documentation with immediate data capture at the clinical encounter and data reuse for quality assurance, research and cancer registry purposes [ 11].
Suggestions for moving forward include a collaborative design of suitable data elements, data collection protocols, data quality assurance, research and evaluation training, and procedures for confidential data entry and transfer.
The eight items were "influence on the quality of care", "improvement of the data quality", "availability of the data", "reduction of input errors", "reporting", "quality assurance", "research and education" and "increased staff satisfaction".
Despite these assurances, future research is still needed to confirm our findings of effect modification.
Jason Bobe http://PersonalGenomics.org detailed the problems inherent in making assurances to research volunteers that 'de-identified' or 'anonymized' data will remain confidential, even if data are shared widely.
Quality assurance during research and development is linked with development progress and by necessity the extent of quality assurance required will change depending on the methods used, making a uniform definition difficult.
