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Development of robust quality assurance procedures for terrestrial essential climate variable data products derived from Earth Observation satellites Universiteit Gent
Clinical experience using Delta 4 phantom for pretreatment patient-specific quality assurance in modern radiotherapy Universiteit Gent
Higher education policy change in the European higher education area : divergence of quality assurance systems in England and the Netherlands Universiteit Gent
A diagnostic tool for basic daily quality assurance of a Tomotherapy Hi*Art machine. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
To investigate and evaluate the use of an in-house developed diagnostic software tool using the imaging detector data for a quick daily quality assurance check of the output (dose) and lateral profile (cone) of a tomotherapy Hi*Art system. The Hi*Art treatment system is a radiation therapy machine for delivering intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) in a helical fashion with an integrated CT scanner used for improved patient positioning ...
Quality assurance of medicines supplied to low income and middle-income countries Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Objective In today's context of globalisation of pharmaceutical production and distribution, international and national procurement agencies play a de facto key role in defining the quality of medicines available in sub-Saharan Africa. We evaluated the compliance of a sample of pharmaceutical distributors active in sub-Saharan Africa with the standards of the WHO guideline ‘Model Quality Assurance System (WHO MQAS) for procurement agencies’, and ...
The REal Life EVidence AssessmeNt Tool (RELEVANT) : development of a novel quality assurance asset to rate observational comparative effectiveness research studies Universiteit Gent
Background: Evidence from observational comparative effectiveness research (CER) is ranked below that from randomized controlled trials in traditional evidence hierarchies. However, asthma observational CER studies represent an important complementary evidence source answering different research questions and are particularly valuable in guiding clinical decision making in real-life patient and practice settings. Tools are required to assist in ...
History of the International Organization for Biological Control Global Working Group on Mass Rearing and Quality Assurance Universiteit Gent
The International Organization for Biological Control Global Working Group on Mass Rearing and Quality Assurance (MRQA) was established in 1980 as the Working Group on Quality Control (WGQC) to assure success of insect mass rearing for pest management that was being developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Due mostly to the efforts of WGQC, quality control became institutionalized in several insect mass rearing facilities during the 1980s. After ...
Has lean improved organizational decision making? International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance Universiteit Hasselt KU Leuven
Purpose – Sustainable improvement is likely to be hampered by ambiguous objectives and uncertain cause-effect relations in care processes (the organization’s decision-making context). Lean management can improve implementation results because it decreases ambiguity and uncertainties. But does it succeed? Many quality improvement (QI) initiatives are appropriate improvement strategies in organizational contexts characterized by low ambiguity and ...