"We are also auditing exam boards' quality assurance processes around marking to see what improvements can be made," she said.
Many attributes such as pathology review and staging review, the decision to treat (and use of evidence-based guidelines) were undertaken as part of other quality assurance exercises (eg, tumour-board case conferences).
To enhance comparability with international studies and to prevent a selection bias, our independent scientific advisory board (see 'Quality assurance' section) recommended excluding patients only in case of clinically significant suicide risk or history of attempted suicide in the past 12 months.
The study will undergo routine quality assurance review conducted by the ethics board.
To foster quality assurance and patients' safety, an advisory board has been implemented, which advises the study protocol, study procedures and realisation of the study.
Discussion: We present several issues, including study and data collection design, exposure assessment, scheduling and time coordination, quality assurance and quality control, and institutional review board protocols.
We discuss our experiences with and recommendations related to the following issues: addressing stereotypes, data collection and study design, exposure measurements, schedules and time coordination, quality assurance and quality control, and institutional review board (IRB) protocol.
Owners can only apply for membership if their properties already qualify for one of the UK's quality assurance schemes, such as the AA, Scottish Tourist Board or VisitBritain's "Quality and Tourism".
Everyone knows what they look like and no one's ever seen one," said Robert J. Margolis, M.D., chairman of the board of the National Committee for Quality Assurance, a nonprofit organization known for its voluntary health care accreditation program.
It was developed after a consensus conference of five board certified anaesthetists and one quality assurance officer.
The Board determined the study involved a quality assurance project and did not constitute research involving human subjects.
