Furthermore, as the field of molecular pathological epidemiology [40] continues to evolve, standardizing methods and definitions of molecular endpoints should be addressed.
In the interim, continued development of patient/caregiver and clinician assessment tools such as the NPI should continue to be standardized for different populations of individuals.
However, standardizing the MGMT assay for widespread clinical use was challenging, and treatment decisions continued to be performed without knowledge of the MGMT status.
The African Region continues to focus on standardizing guidelines and curricula and is actively implementing competence-based training for nurses and midwives, from pre-service through to faculty education levels.
The FCAT has been embroiled in controversy for quite some time, as educators and lawmakers alike continue to debate the role standardized testing plays in student learning.
This is important because NGS is being used clinically, but there continue to be challenges in standardizing the different components that include the analytical wet bench process (sample preparation, target enrichment, NGS sequencing) and the bioinformatics pipeline for NGS [ 7].
Google is also continuing its ongoing push to standardize email encryption, another feature that's crucial for activists and others who can be subject to hacking and surveillance.
"This procedure, which results from MLB's continuing work with the Department of Homeland Security to standardize security practices across the game, will be in addition to bag checks that are now uniform throughout MLB," baseball spokesman Michael Teevan said Tuesday.
Thomas G. Mortenson, a senior scholar at the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, says admissions policies that emphasize standardized tests will continue to severely limit the number of low-income students admitted to top universities.
It is evident that quantitation and categorization of newborn screening disorders remains imperfect and inconsistent and that, until standardized, there will continue to be confusion about the extent of screening in individual programs and the nation.
