He also said paying retail prices to buy products for quality assurance made "zero financial sense".
Geomorphology increasingly plays a central role in multi-disciplinary river research and the importance of effective quality assurance makes it essential that audit trails and quality checks are hard-wired into study design.
Western Australian also has only one centralized Birth Defects Registry, with consistent ascertainment and quality assurance protocols, making substantial variability by region unlikely, particularly within the metropolitan area.
Set up a calibration and oversight schedule as a part of the quality assurance program, making sure to specify a quick, reliable SOP (standard operating procedure) for this oversight.
MJQ, JM, GA coordinated the field work in terms of study implementation and data collection, designed the study data collection forms, created clinical and laboratory databases, implemented quality assurance procedures, made the statistical analyses, produced the working and final tables and made substantial comments to the manuscript.
For quality assurance, we made periodic visits to the training sites and provided any necessary feedback to the trainers using a training checklist.
Quality assurance strategies included making sure that interviewers understood the meaning of every question, how to ask the question and how to record answers, observation of live interviews, monitoring the data for missing values, and periodic inter-rater reliability tests.
As a quality assurance manager, she made sure that Strandflex performed tests on the aviation cable it sold to the military and other customers.
A City Council member, Letitia James, held hearings on the swelling costs of the CityTime contract, and Mr. Bloomberg's administration said it had hired a quality assurance company to make sure that the city was getting what it paid for.
