The VLAD charts were shared in multidisciplinary meetings and clinical teams reported that they were a useful addition to existing quality assurance initiatives.
Bolton argues that existing quality assurance frameworks often do not allow accommodation of manageable risks associated with innovation, flexibility and experimentation in new market places, discussing a partnership between Australia and China [ 27].
On the basis of a typology of quality systems consisting of five elements (structural assets, allocation of responsibilities, protocols, information transfer and monitoring/feedback cycles) we identified existing quality assurance activities in the model.
We have chosen this network as a source of treatment centres and practitioners due to existing quality assurance procedures as well as training and mentoring programs that are accessible for the purposes of the trial.
Existing compost quality assurance systems reflect this importance through intensive testing of hygienic parameters.
Commencing in 2007, a collaborative project to develop the "National Animal Welfare Standards for the Livestock Transport Industry" (the Standards) was completed and the documentation was integrated with the existing industry quality assurance (QA) program, TruckCare.
"Expanding access to quality HIV testing and counselling will require strengthening of existing infrastructure, quality assurance systems and human resource capacity, as well as monitoring and supervision systems, at all levels of the health system," said Dr Samlee Plianbangchang, WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia.
Index Ventures is leading the round, Xavier Niel is participating as well as existing investors CNP Assurances, Partech and Portag3 Ventures LP.
Gu argues that in China there is insufficient knowledge and experience in quality assurance of transnational education, as most existing systems of quality assurance and accreditation focus on the local higher education system [ 3].
The specific objectives of the review were to, firstly, identify literature that expressly addresses the concept of quality assurance of qualitative research, and secondly, to identify common narratives across the existing discourses of quality assurance.
