That big variation in what hospitals charge Medicare exists even in procedures that are standardized and do not involve patient complications, the Times analysis of the data shows.
In addition, the multicenter nature of this study has required careful attention to the development of data collection and laboratory procedures that can be standardized across multiple centers.
There is less variation for procedures that are easy to standardize, such as those where no complications occur, irrespective of the type of insurance.
It is now obvious that standardizing quantitative procedures and quality control is required to make the most of FDG PET in the context of therapy monitoring [ 9, 10].
At present we feel that there is a need for concerted international activity to implement standardized immunocytochemical procedures that are already available, which may then serve as a 'gold standard' with which to compare novel diagnostic approaches.
To standardize all the procedures that are needed for LAP definition as well as for quantification of MRD, five centers in Belgium and the Netherlands joined forces in 2004.
This work provides a procedure that allows to standardize the process of task analysis in biomechanics and design evaluations, this procedure allows to obtain the frequency of the subtasks that are part of the assessed workstation, and thus it is easier to identify which one of these need to be evaluated with ergonomic methods.
The templates are supplied to the individual sites allowing them to perform standardized data cleaning procedures that result in linkage variables with similar data quality and harmonized formats.
It will then be important for such organizations to interface with the OECD to ensure the appropriate crafting of harmonized OECD toxicogenomics-based test guidelines that are based upon standardized, adequately validated procedures, that are considered practical, and that permit consistent regulatory judgments.
Defining meaningful normal values with reasonable SD (similar to current clinical chemistry parameters) of hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes from healthy people requires experimental procedures that are highly efficient, robust, and standardized to an extent that they can be reproduced in many laboratories worldwide.
