The RapidArc approach can be considered an extension to dynamic MLC IMRT, and the machine commissioning and quality assurance should validate standard dynamic MLC delivery, and the combination with dose rate variations and gantry rotation with variable speed, which is specific to RapidArc.
All algorithms used here were validated using a quality assurance process versus seven different databases of epitopes experimentally measured to be presented.
EARSS provides comparable data, annually validated through external quality assurance exercises, which have repeatedly confirmed a good-to-excellent concordance for identifying MRSA (18 ).
Fear of reprisals and the reluctance to express aversion to medicines may increase bias of previously validated questionnaires despite assurances of confidentiality [ 12- 14].
The data go through quality assurance and validation checks and once the data have been validated the information is added to the database.
However, Green wants the CQC to set only a quality framework – "not an all-singing, all-dancing scheme" – that would allow operators to run their own quality assurance programmes, independently validated.
They included improved measures for data quality assurance and control, validated correlations with health outcomes, and confirmation that remote-sensing data accurately represent exposures on the ground.
We believe the study described uses robust data; the data has been rigorously audited by the quality assurance service and validated both externally and by the surgeons of the originating breast units.
While previous studies have shown good inter-observer variability, it is important that this is replicated in a broader clinical setting and that training processes and competencies are validated to ensure high quality assurance.
However, each of the tests used for neuropsychological and language assessment had been validated for normal populations, providing assurance that the intellectual deficits noted were the result of Salmonella meningitis.
To validate the proposed methodology, the frequency response assurance criterion (FRAC) and the frequency amplitude assurance criterion (FAAC) are used.
