All of this points to the limits of voluntary corporate commitments, particularly in the absence of science-based, comparable and transparent metrics that would allow stakeholders to evaluate one company against another.
It is difficult to precisely define the concept of value-based radiology, and it is even more problematic to develop metrics which would allow a clear demonstration of the benefits contributed by imaging to the care of patients.
Because trends in abundance are often useful for management, we desired performance metrics that would allow us to separately evaluate 1) the model's ability to return the correct overall abundance scale, and 2) the model's ability to accurately portray changes in abundance.
Aiming to identify novel sRNAs and also assess which sRNAs are transcribed as part of the stress transcriptome, we desired to set metrics that would allow us to call experimental reads from the RNA-seq data as factually identifying sRNAs.
For a project in which multiple implementing sources submit results to an electronic data platform using common metrics, this platform would allow full viewing access and privileges for all who log on.
This information, if analysed alongside the outcome metrics generated by PROMs, would allow surgeons to identify where care might be improved.
Further studies using continuous measurement systems would allow additional metrics to be tested.
