I worked at two major American companies, and both listened in on phone calls under the guise of "quality assurance" monitoring.
Quality assurance (monitoring, source data verification, audits) are only possible in a pharmacy observational study to a very limited extent, or not at all.
Continuous internal and external quality assurance monitoring was done in both laboratories every 3 months.
AI, MP, VD, VC and APa carried out entry and protection of data and quality assurance monitoring.
The Pediatric Intensive Care Evaluations (PICUEs) version 3.2.3 database is an institutional clinical database which was maintained between 2003 and 2007 at MCH for quality assurance monitoring.
CD4 counting at the College of Medicine using the Panleucogate assay has recently been enrolled for external quality assurance monitoring with UK NEQAS (13).
Anonymised data will be collated by NWORTH centrally from the three participating sites on a regular basis for ongoing analysis and quality assurance monitoring.
It is an investigator-initiated trial; the Department of Radiation Oncology is responsible for co-ordination, overall trial management, registration (clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT 01220752), database management, quality assurance, monitoring, and reporting.
In addition, prenatal records serve as population health screening tools and sources of data for perinatal surveillance systems, and allow for quality assurance monitoring of compliance with patient care standards [ 1].
The data is being collected using a Juno Trimble survey device (http://www.trimble.com/junosb.shtml), allowing on-going quality assurance, monitoring of survey coverage, and recording of GPS coordinates for later mapping using a geographical information system.
