All studies should carefully document quality assurance and control procedures and report intertester and interscorer reliability coefficients where appropriate.
The resulting reports are reviewed internally according to a documented quality control and assurance protocol.
Responsibilities can include generating imaging guidance documents, managing quality assurance steps, setting up mechanisms to transfer scans to a central location, performing quality control on scans received and the organisation of independent radiological review and/or image analysis.
"We've made significant progress and note a significant increase in the number of country programme documents that meet quality assurance standards for gender equality," said Ms. von Kohl.
In contrast, key facility-level managerial processes, such as having routine and documented management meetings and applying quality assurance approaches, were uncommon.
At that time there was no comprehensive nationwide hospital performance data available except from a dozen specific surgical interventions (where no minimum volume standard was applied) documented in the obligatory external quality assurance measure.
The postoperative treatment planning CT played a critical role in quality assurance, by documenting that the integrity of the implant had been compromised, prior to prescribing the dose to the patient.
In March 2005, the Energy and Interior departments revealed that several U.S. Geological Survey hydrologists had exchanged e-mails discussing possible falsification of quality assurance documents on water infiltration research.
We also reviewed documents that focused on quality assurance strategies internationally, in particular in Africa, from World Bank and African institutional web sites as well as published literature [ 8- 12, 18- 23].
Software Development Plan, Software Configuration Management Plan and Software Verification and Validation Plan are the mainstay of Software Quality Assurance which is documented in the Software Quality Assurance Plan.
