Quality Control
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

The Standard Care vs Corticosteroid for Retinal Vein Occlusion (SCORE) study system for evaluation of optical coherence tomograms: SCORE study report 4.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: To describe grading procedures for optical coherence tomographic (OCT) images of participants in the Standard Care vs Corticosteroid for Retinal Vein Occlusion (SCORE) Study. METHODS: Optical coherence tomograms were taken at clinical ... Read more...

Integrating NTD mapping protocols: Can surveys for trachoma and urinary schistosomiasis be done simultaneously?

30 Oct 2009 We determined whether the school-based "disease mapping" methodology used to assess urinary schistosomiasis (SCH) is useful for determining trachoma interventions and whether the district-based approach recommended for trachoma is useful for SCH ... Read more...

A set of principles, developed by residents, to guide Canadian residency education.

30 Oct 2009 With so much invested in the clinical competency of physicians, adequate and appropriate mechanisms are needed to ensure that educational systems provide the highest-quality training possible and are responsive both to the changing demands of the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Quality Control'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Validation of neonatal tetanus elimination in the Congo by a lot quality-assurance cluster sample survey. 7 Nov 2009
• The Standard Care vs Corticosteroid for Retinal Vein Occlusion (SCORE) study system for evaluation of optical coherence tomograms: SCORE study report 4. 30 Oct 2009
• Integrating NTD mapping protocols: Can surveys for trachoma and urinary schistosomiasis be done simultaneously? 30 Oct 2009
• A set of principles, developed by residents, to guide Canadian residency education. 30 Oct 2009
• Annals of Emergency Medicine Journal Club. Journal club: clinical prediction rules. 30 Oct 2009
• Increase in quality, but not quantity, of clinical trials in acute pain: 1992 versus 2007. 30 Oct 2009
• FDA steps up efforts to find, remove violators of clinical trial regulations. 26 Oct 2009
• Multistate outbreak of Serratia marcescens bloodstream infections caused by contamination of prefilled heparin and isotonic sodium chloride solution syringes. 10 Oct 2009
• Can the Food and Drug Administration ensure that our pharmaceuticals are safely manufactured? 10 Oct 2009
• Growing calls in United States, Europe to improve regulation of genetic testing. 5 Oct 2009
• Radiation risk modeling of thyroid cancer with special emphasis on the Chernobyl epidemiological data. 29 Sep 2009
• Interim department chairs in academic medicine. 29 Sep 2009
• Biomanufacturing process analytical technology (PAT) application for downstream processing: Using dissolved oxygen as an indicator of product quality for a protein refolding reaction. 29 Sep 2009
• Global Polio Laboratory Network:Fifteenth Annual Informal Consultation. 29 Sep 2009
• Surgical research: the reality and the IDEAL. 24 Sep 2009
• Science education. Revising the AP biology curriculum. 23 Sep 2009
• Viability of commercially available bleach for water treatment in developing countries. 15 Sep 2009
• Repeatability of 18F-FDG PET in a multicenter phase I study of patients with advanced gastrointestinal malignancies. 14 Sep 2009
• NEMA NU4-2008 image quality performance report for the microPET focus 120 and for various transmission and reconstruction methods. 14 Sep 2009
• Radiolabeled humanized anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody visilizumab for imaging human T-lymphocytes. 14 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Quality Control'

Definition: A system for verifying and maintaining a desired level of quality in a product or process by careful planning, use of proper equipment, continued inspection, and corrective action as required. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)

Descriptor UI: D011786

Alternative terms: Quality Control; Control, Quality; Controls, Quality; Quality Controls;

Related Mesh Headings: Reference Standards; Total Quality Management;

Tree Number: J01.897.608;

History Note: 74(71)

Technical Notes: NIM; no qualif