Quality assessment tools for primary studies of test accuracy are relatively well developed, although only one is validated (QUADAS), but very little work has been done to develop tools to quality-assess studies evaluating the impact of diagnostic testin
An assessment of the quality and impact of NPSA medication safety outputs issued to the NHS in England and Wales. BMJ Quality & Safety 2011;20:360-5. Available from: http:// www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21303768. DOI: 10.1136/bmjqs.2010.040287...
Assessing the ability of the Care Quality Commission's statistical surveillance tool to predict quality and prioritise NHS hospital... The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is responsible for ensuring the quality of the health and social care delivered by more than 30鈥 000 registered providers... ...
Minervation Validation Instrument; QUEST: Quality Evaluation Scoring Tool; QCSS: Quality ComponentScoring System; MICI: Medical Information Content Index; CSS: COVID-19 Specific Score; VIQI: Video Information and Quality Index; PEMAT A/V: Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool for Audio-Visual...
Using our QIs as an external quality assessment tool will therefore make them unfit for their task [60]. Ber- wick et al. summarized this as 'measuring for improve- ment is not measuring for judgement' [61]. An ongoing intervention in 40 palliative care services in Europe, in- cluding ...
The European Practice Assessment tool has shown effectiveness in improving the management of general medical practices [18, 19]. The current study focuses on the implementation and repeated measurement of European Practice Assessment tool in primary dental care settings and examined whether improvements ...
Multiparametric MRI of the prostate is now recommended as the initial diagnostic test for men presenting with suspected prostate cancer, with a negative MRI enabling safe avoidance of biopsy and a positive result enabling MRI-directed sampling of lesions
Conclusions: Assessment of the PPV of atypia diagnoses on breast biopsy is a potentially useful quality assurance tool in breast pathology. This patient cohort (n=652) is part of an ongoing clinicopathologic-radiologic correlation study to develop a nomogram to guide clinical management of breast ...
Assessment of positivity rates among laboratories, combined with regular external quality control strategies, provides a powerful tool to monitor their performance and define reference values for positivity rates in a geographic region. Design: From January 2013 to September 2014, pathologists that ...
D. et al. The comprehensive complication Index (CCI(R)) is a novel cost assessment tool for surgical procedures. Ann. Surg. 268, 784–791 (2018). Article PubMed Google Scholar Dell-Kuster, S. et al. Prospective validation of classification of intraoperative adverse events (ClassIntra): ...